Working with branches is a common task in Git version control. You’ll often need to create, switch, delete, and merge branches.

Create a branch

This command creates a new branch and immediately switches to it:

git switch --create [branch-name]

Switch between branches

This command switches to an existing branch.
Alternatively, you can use git checkout to both create and switch branches.

git switch [branch-name]

List all local branches

git branch

Rename a branch

git branch -m [old-branch-name] [new-branch-name]

Push a branch to GitHub

git push origin [branch-name]

Delete a local branch

git branch --delete [branch-name]

Delete a remote branch on GitHub

git push --delete origin [branch-name]

Merge a branch

git merge [branch-name]

Rebase commits

This command reapplies commits from your current branch onto another branch:

git rebase [branch-name]

Cherry-pick commits

Use this to apply specific commits from another branch.
Often used with git merge and git rebase to maintain a linear commit history.

git cherry-pick