Another great article Milu! I have a question and a suggestion:
Question: What is --list in this line of code git branch --list “feature/*”? It looks like it might be the name of the branch. I went back to your earlier article Git Explained: The Basics and didn't notice a naming technique for creating new branches. Whereas, this Atlassian article on branches doesn't use any hyphens to prepend a branch name.
Suggestion: I noticed your list of previous posts at the bottom, would you mind being redundant and adding them to the top as well? I'm saving these and having a quick reference as to sequence, above the fold, would be very handy.
The command git branch or git branch —list shows you all the branches you are keeping up with locally. You also have the option to give this command an argument in order to only see a group of branches. For instance, if I followed the token advice mentioned in this article, I should have some branches that start with feature/name-of-branch and other that start with bug/. If I want to only list all the branches that add a feature and ignore all the bug branches, I can give it an argument that asks for all the branches that start with feature/* (the asterisk is like a wild card).
I hope this explanation helps clarify that command.
Also, thank you for the suggestion, I didn’t know this before you mentioned it but you can do a “series” of posts and they all link to each other at the top of the page. So I took care of that :) Thank you!
Another great article Milu! I have a question and a suggestion:
Question: What is
--listin this line of codegit branch --list “feature/*”? It looks like it might be the name of the branch. I went back to your earlier article Git Explained: The Basics and didn't notice a naming technique for creating new branches. Whereas, this Atlassian article on branches doesn't use any hyphens to prepend a branch name.Suggestion: I noticed your list of previous posts at the bottom, would you mind being redundant and adding them to the top as well? I'm saving these and having a quick reference as to sequence, above the fold, would be very handy.
Hi Dani!
The command
git branchorgit branch —listshows you all the branches you are keeping up with locally. You also have the option to give this command an argument in order to only see a group of branches. For instance, if I followed the token advice mentioned in this article, I should have some branches that start withfeature/name-of-branchand other that start withbug/. If I want to only list all the branches that add a feature and ignore all the bug branches, I can give it an argument that asks for all the branches that start withfeature/*(the asterisk is like a wild card).I hope this explanation helps clarify that command.
Also, thank you for the suggestion, I didn’t know this before you mentioned it but you can do a “series” of posts and they all link to each other at the top of the page. So I took care of that :) Thank you!
Right on! Thanks for the detailed explanation of
git branchand for making this into a series :)