Branching and Merging - Intro to Git part 4
If you’ve followed along with the previous tutorials, you now know how to work with commits, stage files, view the commit log, and maybe a few other things. Now it’s time to use one of git’s most useful features: branching. What is a branch? In reality, a branch is just a named pointer to a commit. But for most purposes, thinking of a branch like a branch of a tree is fine....