How to use Git - Git Video Tutorial - Part 6 (branch, checkout, remote)

Git Video Tutorial, Branching!

Whew been a fun ride. Thank you all for the great support throughout the series. Really appreciate it! If I could teach and made vids for a living I would =)...even if everyone hated them!

Today it's git branching. Such a great but slightly intimidating feature of GIT. The concept is simple. You create a new branch ("copy") of your project and work on either new versions of the project, or experimental features, all without messing with other branches code.

A great use is on a big project I've been on at work. We split the project up into 3 batches. Each page had roughly 30 web pages in it. When we sent batch 1 (master) to the client, they wanted small updates. However, we still had to work on batch 2. We didn't want to send them batch 2 progress with batch 1 updates, so we made a new branch called "batch 2" and kept our new code separate from our batch 1 code. When the client was ready for batch 2, we just merged master (batch 1) into batch 2 and gave em both!

[JakowiczSimon]

Thanks for the entire Git series. I definitely feel I've gone from knowing almost nothing about Git to have a good knowledge in an evening. Thanks.

[teamkenmei]

Thank you for all of the beautiful tutorials you have made.
This is the best way to learn how to use github by far for me IMO

[danbrehmer]

Just wached this series. you did a really good job exlaining how git works! You have a very "clean and easy" english which made it easy to follow! Thanx alot!

[jordanhorsch]

You are my sensei to the GIT world! Thank you

[garethadavies]

Just getting started using Git and your videos have been a great help. Thanks

[sirrongsir]

Clear and Fun! You did an awesome job! Can't wait for the Spring Tutorial!!! Thank you!!!

[brendanmahon]

Great tutorials! Thanks for spending some time putting together well polished videos with good examples.

[pradyumnakaushik]

Awesome. This is really helpful and very clear. Kudos to you for making the process of learning git concepts easy.

[TheRobBrennanLive]

Thanks so much for these videos. I just watched your six videos and man; what a great overview and introduction into git. Thanks so much!

[Guizm]

Very good explanations and key points/topics, this git series was awesome, thanks!

[feschesheli]

Thanks for the Tutorial, also understandable for Webdesigners not only Progammers. Great!

[ShwetabhKumar]

Just an awesome series. Thank you Jason, this series helped me a lot.

[DAMEVEGA]

125 people forgot to thank you, so i'll do it for them: thank you very much for the tutorial, jason. you're the fuckin man!

[NadiarAhmad]

Thank to you Jason! I have watched all of your Git series video, and it really really helpfull.

[ers]

Excellent man... you should make more git tutorials if you get a chance.

I was always confused with Merging and thought it worked the same way as Push. For a long time I wondered why my code broke cuz I used to think that to merge a feature branch, you're supposed to be on that branch when doing the merge [just like highway traffic merging from on-ramp (feature branch) to the main throughway (master)]. But instead, you should first switch to Master, then your feature merge.

[kevinflorenzdaus]

Good stuff mate . Thank you!.. I learned a lot from these video . 

[xingyuansheng]

Thank you! This is exactly what I need.

[IrinaBlumenfeld]

Thank you Jason for GIT tutorials with examples. These are simple, clear and very helpful. Maybe you could make some more advanced ones with common problems, issues that come up. Working with a team, git pull requests, etc.

[troubleshooter]

very good job dude! these videos made me confident in using git...

[krishna]

Thank you very much man. this series helped me a lot.