How to rename a branch, delete a branch, and find the author of a branch in Git

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 21, 2022 3:13 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Agil Antony
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One of Git's primary strengths is its ability to "fork" work into different branches. If you're the only person using a repository, the benefits are modest, but once you start working with many other contributors, branching is essential. Git's branching mechanism allows multiple people to work on a project, and even on the same file, at the same time. Users can introduce different features, independent of one another, and then merge the changes back to a main branch later. A branch created specifically for one purpose, such as adding a new feature or fixing a known bug, is sometimes called a topic branch.

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