git从一个分支切换到另一个分支，但不对当前分支进行更改

Question

I don't know if this is normal in Git but whenever I move from one branch to another, the changes in that current branch that I am in is carried on to the branch where I switch on.

For example, I have the master branch and then I created a branch2 . I added some files to branch2 and committed all of it. Then I create a new branch and switch to it using git checkout -b branch3 . The files that I have added on branch2 is now on branch3 as well. But what I want is only the things that I have on my master branch.

The only solution that I found so far is to switch to the master branch first and then use git checkout -b branch3 so that I won't get the changes from branch2 .

Is there a shortcut to this? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As a shortcut to switching to the master branch before you make branch3 , you can use git checkout -b branch3 master .

This second argument is called the "start point", and it defines the branch that the new branch should be based on.

For more details here about the git branch command, see the git-scm docs for git branch .