git branch command

Author: schacon

book/03-git-branching/sections/branch-management.asc

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+[[_branch_management]]
 === Branch Management
 
 (((branches, managing)))

book/03-git-branching/sections/nutshell.asc

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ The only reason nearly every repository has one is that the `git init` command c
 .A branch and its commit history
 image::images/branch-and-history.png[A branch and its commit history.]
 
+[[_create_new_branch]]
 ==== Creating a new branch
 
 (((branches, creating)))

book/03-git-branching/sections/remote-branches.asc

@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Switched to a new branch 'serverfix'
 
 This gives you a local branch that you can work on that starts where `origin/serverfix` is.
 
+[[_tracking_branches]]
 ==== Tracking Branches
 
 (((branches, tracking)))(((branches, upstream)))

book/10-git-internals/sections/refs.asc

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+[[_git_refs]]
 === Git References
 
 You can run something like `git log 1a410e` to look through your whole history, but you still have to remember that `1a410e` is the last commit in order to walk that history to find all those objects.

book/C-git-commands/1-git-commands.asc

@@ -143,11 +143,22 @@ We only briefly mention this command in <<_git_mv>>.
 
 === Branching and Merging
 
+There are just a handful of commands that implement most of the branching and merging functionality in Git.
 
 ==== git branch
 
+The `git branch` command is actually something of a branch management tool. It can list the branches you have, create a new branch, delete branches and rename branches.
+
+Most of <<_git_branching>> is dedicated to the `branch` command and it's used throughout the entire chapter. We first introduce it in <<_create_new_branch>> and we go through most of it's other features (listing and deleting) in <<_branch_management>>.
+
+In <<_tracking_branches>> we use the `git branch -u` option to set up a tracking branch.
+
+Finally, we go through some of what it does in the background in <<_git_refs>>.
+
 ==== git checkout
 
+The `git checkout` command is used to switch branches and  check content out into your working directory.
+
 ==== git merge
 
 ==== git mergetool