Tells git branch, git switch and git checkout to set up new branches so that git-pull [1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this …

Because the commit on the branch you’re on isn’t a direct ancestor of the branch you’re merging in, Git has to do some work. In this case, Git does a simple three-way merge, using the two …

The git branch command is actually something of a branch management tool. It can list the branches you have, create a new branch, delete branches and rename branches.

Now that you’ve created, merged, and deleted some branches, let’s look at some branch-management tools that will come in handy when you begin using branches all the time.

This configuration will tell git to show the relationship between the two branches in git status and git branch -v. Furthermore, it directs git pull without arguments to pull from the upstream when …

Branches in a Nutshell To really understand the way Git does branching, we need to take a step back and examine how Git stores its data. As you may remember from What is Git?, Git …

DESCRIPTION Incorporates changes from the named commits (since the time their histories diverged from the current branch) into the current branch. This command is used by git pull to …

When you run git checkout <something>, Git tries to guess whether <something> is intended to be a branch, a commit, or a set of file (s), and then either switches to that branch or commit, or …

This command shows which branch is automatically pushed to when you run git push while on certain branches. It also shows you which remote branches on the server you don’t yet have, …

Various commands, including git checkout and git status, will show you how many commits have been added to your current branch and the upstream since you forked from it, for example …