Using branches in Git is so painless, we do it a lot. So much that keeping track of your current branch isn’t easy. With this trick, you’ll never forget your current branch.

How to you change and rename a Git branch? I’ve written full tutorials on each of those ‘git branch change’ topics, each of which is linked in the numbered list above. But here’s the tl;dr response ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will ...

My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it ...

Rebase GitHub branches and commits tutorial. Developers should be aware of a few caveats when they rebase GitHub repositories, especially when they work on a protected branch like master.In this ...

GitHub pages have been updated to deploy from any branch. GitHub has added user, organization, and enterprise settings so developers can set the default branch name for all newly created repositories.

Assuming git's performance is fine, I'd say that how you name your branches and tags is up to you; I don't think it matters much as long as you know what it means.