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We talked about branches quite a bit already.

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Now let's investigate what exactly they are.

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So branches are used to develop new features in isolation

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from the main branch.

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It's like your testing environment.

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And the main branch is the default branch.

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Other branches can be manually added.

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Notice that the name main depends on your discretion.

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I call it main in my demo.

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Maybe you didn't change anything.

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It's called master or whatever you want.

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Any Git repository can have multiple branches

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to allow developer to work independently.

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And after completion, once the changes have been approved,

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you merge the branches back to the main.

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So if these branches have different states,

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it's important to be able to compare your branches.

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And you can do that using the git diff command.

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So git diff followed by the name of the two branches

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will preview branch differences

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and see if there are any potential conflicts.

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To merge another branch in your active branch,

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use git merge followed by the branch name

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that you want to merge into there.

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And use git checkout minus B followed by some name

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to create a new branch and start using it.

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Once done, git push origin dev branch

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to push the new branch to the remote repository.

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That makes sense because you want the branch

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to be visible for other developers as well

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before the changes are going to be merged in the main branch.

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Then you use git checkout main to switch back to the main.

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And to clean up your work,

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once the changes have been integrated in the main,

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you can delete the branch using git branch minus D dev branch.

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Let me demonstrate.

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So I'm starting by using a branch,

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git branch new files.

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And then I'm using git status.

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And git status is saying that the current branch is main.

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Now I want to change that,

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so I'm using git checkout new files.

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And then I'm creating a new file,

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echo 3 greater than 3.txt.

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Who cares about the name?

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git add star followed by git commit minus M

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3 in new branch.

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Better be specific.

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Then I'm going to use git push minus minus set upstream

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origin new files.

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And next I'm using git status.

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And there I can see on branch new files.

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I'm using LS.

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And we can see 3.txt.

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And next I'm going to use git checkout main.

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And I'm using LS again.

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And 3.txt is gone.

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Git status is confirming that I'm in the main branch.

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And I don't have my 3.txt file.

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Oh no, what is going on?

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Well, that is what's happening if you are working in branch.

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I went to the branch new files.

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I created a file in that branch,

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and nothing has happened with it.

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So what are we going to do with it?

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That's what you will learn in the next video.