Git checkout

git checkout switch branches or restore working tree files

• Doc: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout

git checkout
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

git checkout master
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.
Switched to a new branch 'master'
git merge origin/main
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

git checkout main
error: pathspec 'main' did not match any file(s) known to git

git checkout main
Switched to branch 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Rename Branch

git checkout -f yourbranch 
git branch -M yourNewBranch

Related

• git clone
• git merge
• GitHub Actions: uses: actions/checkout@v2
• git checkout master && git pull

See also

• git checkout [ -b | master | main | -f ]
• git: [config | init | status ], git add, git rm, git commit, git push, git pull, .gitconfig, .gitignore, git (clone, fetch, pull), git tag, git log, git blame, Merge Request, LFS, git branch, git apply, git rebase, git diff, git diff-tree, git config --global, remote | submodule | request-pull, GIT_TRACE, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, clean, main, git show-ref, git reset, git prune, git ls-remote origin, git checkout, git switch, pathspec, git credential-osxkeychain, git version, pre-commit, git --help, GitBook, refs/

https://github.com/actions/checkout