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Create a repo branch

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- [Instructor] I'll look at a few other GET actions. In this video, I'll look at how to create a branch and use it for your code. I'll be working in Visual Studio Code. I'll be using the simple repo demo, which has this file, and I'll be making some simple changes through this README file. It's a good idea in a software team to create a branch whenever you want to work on new features. That way you are impacting only that branch and not the main branch of the application. Now the way you name these branches varies depending on your team conventions. Some teams like to use the name of the feature. Some teams like to use the name of the person creating the branch. I'll use a feature name for this example. Now, to get to the GET tools, I will go here to the source control tab, and then you can see there's a number of settings here, or features, commits, file history, branches. See there's only a single branch at the moment. And I can also perform actions by going up to these three dots…

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