How to List, Create, and Delete Branches in Git (git branch)

git branch manages branches — separate, independent lines of development within the same repository.

Key points

• Run git branch with no arguments to list all local branches
• git branch new-feature creates a new branch without switching to it
• git branch -d branch-name deletes a branch that has already been merged; -D forces deletion of an unmerged one

Example

git branch new-feature