Learn Git in a Day

Spin Up a New Branch

Let's say we want to add a power (exponentiation) function to our calculator, but we want to develop it separately from the main code. We'll create a branch for this:

git branch feature/power

This creates a new branch called feature/power. The feature/ prefix is a common naming convention that helps organize branches by their purpose. It's not required - you could name the branch anything - but it makes things easier to manage as projects grow.

Now list the branches: