git branch

Description:

• Pointers to a specific commit — nothing more.
• Remember that a branch essentially says “I want to include the work of this commit and all parent commits”
  • if git checkout and not yet commit, both pointers of 2 branches point to same commit

gitGraph
   commit
   branch develop
   checkout develop
   commit

Synopis:

• s
• git branch
  • [--track[=(direct|inherit)] | --no-track]
  • [-f]
    • directly force reassign a branch to a commit
    • git branch -f main HEAD~3
  • [--recurse-submodules] <branchname> [<start-point>]