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 404 <div id="header">
 405 <h1>
 406 git-branch(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-branch -
 411    List, create, or delete branches
 412 </p>
 413 </div>
 414 </div>
 415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 416 <div class="sectionbody">
 417 <div class="verseblock">
 418 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git branch</em> [--color[=&lt;when&gt;] | --no-color] [-r | -a]
 419         [-v [--abbrev=&lt;length&gt; | --no-abbrev]]
 420         [(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [&lt;commit&gt;]]
 421 <em>git branch</em> [--set-upstream | --track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] &lt;branchname&gt; [&lt;start-point&gt;]
 422 <em>git branch</em> (-m | -M) [&lt;oldbranch&gt;] &lt;newbranch&gt;
 423 <em>git branch</em> (-d | -D) [-r] &lt;branchname&gt;&#8230;</div>
 424 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
 425 </div></div>
 426 </div>
 427 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 428 <div class="sectionbody">
 429 <div class="paragraph"><p>With no arguments, existing branches are listed and the current branch will
 430 be highlighted with an asterisk.  Option <tt>-r</tt> causes the remote-tracking
 431 branches to be listed, and option <tt>-a</tt> shows both.</p></div>
 432 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <tt>--contains</tt>, shows only the branches that contain the named commit
 433 (in other words, the branches whose tip commits are descendants of the
 434 named commit).  With <tt>--merged</tt>, only branches merged into the named
 435 commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named
 436 commit) will be listed.  With <tt>--no-merged</tt> only branches not merged into
 437 the named commit will be listed.  If the &lt;commit&gt; argument is missing it
 438 defaults to <em>HEAD</em> (i.e. the tip of the current branch).</p></div>
 439 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command&#8217;s second form creates a new branch head named &lt;branchname&gt;
 440 which points to the current <em>HEAD</em>, or &lt;start-point&gt; if given.</p></div>
 441 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 442 working tree to it; use "git checkout &lt;newbranch&gt;" to switch to the
 443 new branch.</p></div>
 444 <div class="paragraph"><p>When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, git sets up the
 445 branch so that <em>git pull</em> will appropriately merge from
 446 the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
 447 <tt>branch.autosetupmerge</tt> configuration flag. That setting can be
 448 overridden by using the <tt>--track</tt> and <tt>--no-track</tt> options, and
 449 changed later using <tt>git branch --set-upstream</tt>.</p></div>
 450 <div class="paragraph"><p>With a <em>-m</em> or <em>-M</em> option, &lt;oldbranch&gt; will be renamed to &lt;newbranch&gt;.
 451 If &lt;oldbranch&gt; had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match
 452 &lt;newbranch&gt;, and a reflog entry is created to remember the branch
 453 renaming. If &lt;newbranch&gt; exists, -M must be used to force the rename
 454 to happen.</p></div>
 455 <div class="paragraph"><p>With a <tt>-d</tt> or <tt>-D</tt> option, <tt>&lt;branchname&gt;</tt> will be deleted.  You may
 456 specify more than one branch for deletion.  If the branch currently
 457 has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.</p></div>
 458 <div class="paragraph"><p>Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
 459 only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
 460 in the remote repository or if <em>git fetch</em> was configured not to fetch
 461 them again. See also the <em>prune</em> subcommand of <a href="git-remote.html">git-remote(1)</a> for a
 462 way to clean up all obsolete remote-tracking branches.</p></div>
 463 </div>
 464 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 465 <div class="sectionbody">
 466 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 467 <dt class="hdlist1">
 468 -d
 469 </dt>
 470 <dd>
 471 <p>
 472         Delete a branch. The branch must be fully merged in its
 473         upstream branch, or in <tt>HEAD</tt> if no upstream was set with
 474         <tt>--track</tt> or <tt>--set-upstream</tt>.
 475 </p>
 476 </dd>
 477 <dt class="hdlist1">
 478 -D
 479 </dt>
 480 <dd>
 481 <p>
 482         Delete a branch irrespective of its merged status.
 483 </p>
 484 </dd>
 485 <dt class="hdlist1">
 486 -l
 487 </dt>
 488 <dd>
 489 <p>
 490         Create the branch&#8217;s reflog.  This activates recording of
 491         all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
 492         based sha1 expressions such as "&lt;branchname&gt;@{yesterday}".
 493         Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually
 494         enabled by default by the <tt>core.logallrefupdates</tt> config option.
 495 </p>
 496 </dd>
 497 <dt class="hdlist1">
 498 -f
 499 </dt>
 500 <dt class="hdlist1">
 501 --force
 502 </dt>
 503 <dd>
 504 <p>
 505         Reset &lt;branchname&gt; to &lt;startpoint&gt; if &lt;branchname&gt; exists
 506         already. Without <tt>-f</tt> <em>git branch</em> refuses to change an existing branch.
 507 </p>
 508 </dd>
 509 <dt class="hdlist1">
 510 -m
 511 </dt>
 512 <dd>
 513 <p>
 514         Move/rename a branch and the corresponding reflog.
 515 </p>
 516 </dd>
 517 <dt class="hdlist1">
 518 -M
 519 </dt>
 520 <dd>
 521 <p>
 522         Move/rename a branch even if the new branch name already exists.
 523 </p>
 524 </dd>
 525 <dt class="hdlist1">
 526 --color[=&lt;when&gt;]
 527 </dt>
 528 <dd>
 529 <p>
 530         Color branches to highlight current, local, and
 531         remote-tracking branches.
 532         The value must be always (the default), never, or auto.
 533 </p>
 534 </dd>
 535 <dt class="hdlist1">
 536 --no-color
 537 </dt>
 538 <dd>
 539 <p>
 540         Turn off branch colors, even when the configuration file gives the
 541         default to color output.
 542         Same as <tt>--color=never</tt>.
 543 </p>
 544 </dd>
 545 <dt class="hdlist1">
 546 -r
 547 </dt>
 548 <dd>
 549 <p>
 550         List or delete (if used with -d) the remote-tracking branches.
 551 </p>
 552 </dd>
 553 <dt class="hdlist1">
 554 -a
 555 </dt>
 556 <dd>
 557 <p>
 558         List both remote-tracking branches and local branches.
 559 </p>
 560 </dd>
 561 <dt class="hdlist1">
 562 -v
 563 </dt>
 564 <dt class="hdlist1">
 565 --verbose
 566 </dt>
 567 <dd>
 568 <p>
 569         Show sha1 and commit subject line for each head, along with
 570         relationship to upstream branch (if any). If given twice, print
 571         the name of the upstream branch, as well.
 572 </p>
 573 </dd>
 574 <dt class="hdlist1">
 575 --abbrev=&lt;length&gt;
 576 </dt>
 577 <dd>
 578 <p>
 579         Alter the sha1&#8217;s minimum display length in the output listing.
 580         The default value is 7.
 581 </p>
 582 </dd>
 583 <dt class="hdlist1">
 584 --no-abbrev
 585 </dt>
 586 <dd>
 587 <p>
 588         Display the full sha1s in the output listing rather than abbreviating them.
 589 </p>
 590 </dd>
 591 <dt class="hdlist1">
 592 -t
 593 </dt>
 594 <dt class="hdlist1">
 595 --track
 596 </dt>
 597 <dd>
 598 <p>
 599         When creating a new branch, set up configuration to mark the
 600         start-point branch as "upstream" from the new branch. This
 601         configuration will tell git to show the relationship between the
 602         two branches in <tt>git status</tt> and <tt>git branch -v</tt>. Furthermore,
 603         it directs <tt>git pull</tt> without arguments to pull from the
 604         upstream when the new branch is checked out.
 605 </p>
 606 <div class="paragraph"><p>This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch.
 607 Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to <tt>false</tt> if you
 608 want <tt>git checkout</tt> and <tt>git branch</tt> to always behave as if <em>--no-track</em>
 609 were given. Set it to <tt>always</tt> if you want this behavior when the
 610 start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.</p></div>
 611 </dd>
 612 <dt class="hdlist1">
 613 --no-track
 614 </dt>
 615 <dd>
 616 <p>
 617         Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the
 618         branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable is true.
 619 </p>
 620 </dd>
 621 <dt class="hdlist1">
 622 --set-upstream
 623 </dt>
 624 <dd>
 625 <p>
 626         If specified branch does not exist yet or if <em>--force</em> has been
 627         given, acts exactly like <em>--track</em>. Otherwise sets up configuration
 628         like <em>--track</em> would when creating the branch, except that where
 629         branch points to is not changed.
 630 </p>
 631 </dd>
 632 <dt class="hdlist1">
 633 --contains &lt;commit&gt;
 634 </dt>
 635 <dd>
 636 <p>
 637         Only list branches which contain the specified commit.
 638 </p>
 639 </dd>
 640 <dt class="hdlist1">
 641 --merged [&lt;commit&gt;]
 642 </dt>
 643 <dd>
 644 <p>
 645         Only list branches whose tips are reachable from the
 646         specified commit (HEAD if not specified).
 647 </p>
 648 </dd>
 649 <dt class="hdlist1">
 650 --no-merged [&lt;commit&gt;]
 651 </dt>
 652 <dd>
 653 <p>
 654         Only list branches whose tips are not reachable from the
 655         specified commit (HEAD if not specified).
 656 </p>
 657 </dd>
 658 <dt class="hdlist1">
 659 &lt;branchname&gt;
 660 </dt>
 661 <dd>
 662 <p>
 663         The name of the branch to create or delete.
 664         The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
 665         <a href="git-check-ref-format.html">git-check-ref-format(1)</a>.  Some of these checks
 666         may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name.
 667 </p>
 668 </dd>
 669 <dt class="hdlist1">
 670 &lt;start-point&gt;
 671 </dt>
 672 <dd>
 673 <p>
 674         The new branch head will point to this commit.  It may be
 675         given as a branch name, a commit-id, or a tag.  If this
 676         option is omitted, the current HEAD will be used instead.
 677 </p>
 678 </dd>
 679 <dt class="hdlist1">
 680 &lt;oldbranch&gt;
 681 </dt>
 682 <dd>
 683 <p>
 684         The name of an existing branch to rename.
 685 </p>
 686 </dd>
 687 <dt class="hdlist1">
 688 &lt;newbranch&gt;
 689 </dt>
 690 <dd>
 691 <p>
 692         The new name for an existing branch. The same restrictions as for
 693         &lt;branchname&gt; apply.
 694 </p>
 695 </dd>
 696 </dl></div>
 697 </div>
 698 <h2 id="_examples">Examples</h2>
 699 <div class="sectionbody">
 700 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 701 <dt class="hdlist1">
 702 Start development from a known tag
 703 </dt>
 704 <dd>
 705 <div class="listingblock">
 706 <div class="content">
 707 <pre><tt>$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
 708 $ cd my2.6
 709 $ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14   <b>&lt;1&gt;</b>
 710 $ git checkout my2.6.14</tt></pre>
 711 </div></div>
 712 <div class="colist arabic"><ol>
 713 <li>
 714 <p>
 715 This step and the next one could be combined into a single step with
 716 "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14".
 717 </p>
 718 </li>
 719 </ol></div>
 720 </dd>
 721 <dt class="hdlist1">
 722 Delete an unneeded branch
 723 </dt>
 724 <dd>
 725 <div class="listingblock">
 726 <div class="content">
 727 <pre><tt>$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
 728 $ cd my.git
 729 $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <b>&lt;1&gt;</b>
 730 $ git branch -D test                                    <b>&lt;2&gt;</b></tt></pre>
 731 </div></div>
 732 <div class="colist arabic"><ol>
 733 <li>
 734 <p>
 735 Delete the remote-tracking branches "todo", "html" and "man". The next
 736 <em>fetch</em> or <em>pull</em> will create them again unless you configure them not to.
 737 See <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>.
 738 </p>
 739 </li>
 740 <li>
 741 <p>
 742 Delete the "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch
 743 is currently checked out) does not have all commits from the test branch.
 744 </p>
 745 </li>
 746 </ol></div>
 747 </dd>
 748 </dl></div>
 749 </div>
 750 <h2 id="_notes">Notes</h2>
 751 <div class="sectionbody">
 752 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you are creating a branch that you want to checkout immediately, it is
 753 easier to use the git checkout command with its <tt>-b</tt> option to create
 754 a branch and check it out with a single command.</p></div>
 755 <div class="paragraph"><p>The options <tt>--contains</tt>, <tt>--merged</tt> and <tt>--no-merged</tt> serve three related
 756 but different purposes:</p></div>
 757 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 758 <li>
 759 <p>
 760 <tt>--contains &lt;commit&gt;</tt> is used to find all branches which will need
 761   special attention if &lt;commit&gt; were to be rebased or amended, since those
 762   branches contain the specified &lt;commit&gt;.
 763 </p>
 764 </li>
 765 <li>
 766 <p>
 767 <tt>--merged</tt> is used to find all branches which can be safely deleted,
 768   since those branches are fully contained by HEAD.
 769 </p>
 770 </li>
 771 <li>
 772 <p>
 773 <tt>--no-merged</tt> is used to find branches which are candidates for merging
 774   into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD.
 775 </p>
 776 </li>
 777 </ul></div>
 778 </div>
 779 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 780 <div class="sectionbody">
 781 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-check-ref-format.html">git-check-ref-format(1)</a>,
 782 <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>,
 783 <a href="git-remote.html">git-remote(1)</a>,
 784 <a href="user-manual.html#what-is-a-branch">&#8220;Understanding history: What is
 785 a branch?&#8221;</a> in the Git User&#8217;s Manual.</p></div>
 786 </div>
 787 <h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
 788 <div class="sectionbody">
 789 <div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Linus Torvalds &lt;<a href="mailto:torvalds@osdl.org">torvalds@osdl.org</a>&gt; and Junio C Hamano &lt;<a href="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</a>&gt;</p></div>
 790 </div>
 791 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
 792 <div class="sectionbody">
 793 <div class="paragraph"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;<a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</a>&gt;.</p></div>
 794 </div>
 795 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 796 <div class="sectionbody">
 797 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 798 </div>
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