If the destination branch does not exist, you have to append the -b option, otherwise you won’t be able to switch to that branch. Use the drop-down, then click a branch name. The easiest way to switch branch on Git is to use the git checkout command and specify the name of the branch you want to switch to. Under 'Default branch', to the right of the default branch name, click. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you use the -c flag with the git switch command then you will create a new branch and switch to it in one command. what im hoping to do is change the default branch in the settings->Branch option via the command line. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository. … your local branch will revert to the last committed version of the newPage.jsx file. So if you’ve been working on a file called newPage.jsx and you decide you’ve made a mess of it and want to start again, then by doing: git checkout newPage.jsx It means to discard your local changes to a file. But what does ‘checkout a file’ actually mean. … and it’s other use is to ‘checkout’ a file, hence it’s name I guess.

Next, rename branch main to branch master: git branch -m master. So, to change your local branch name, first, checkout branch main (if you arent already on it): git checkout main. The command git checkout has two uses, one to change which branch you’re on where it’s used like this (already covered in this post): git checkout branchName So far, you have only renamed your remote branch from main to master. This is all that git switch does, it is only used to switch which branch you are on. If you compare the following two commands, then yes they do do exactly the same thing: git checkout branch-name git switch branch-name Git checkout does more than git switch, so no, but also yes :). In the official documentation for git switch you can see that this command was added in git 2.23, when the developers of git decided to split some of the functionality that git checkout previously offered, into two clearer uses. This is the newer of the two commands, and the one I use because it makes much more sense when you’re typing it and just feels more intuitive. You use the checkout command like this, to change from your current branch to a branch which is named my-branch: git checkout my-branchĪfter running that command, if you were to do a git status, you’ll see your current branch is now my-branch, so you have changed branches from main to my-branch. This is the original command to ‘ git change branch‘, and the one most people are familiar with. Is git checkout the same as git switch?Īs mentioned there are two commands which you can use to switch which branch you are on.

Git switch branch commandline