Create a branch

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$ git branch
* master

$ git branch featurex
$ git branch
  featurex
* master

$ git checkout featurex
Switched to branch 'featurex'
$ git branch
* featurex
  master

make some changes to app.pl, and commit them to the repository

• Alternative way that creates a branch and checks it out:

git checkout -b featurex

• Make some changes to file, and commit it to the repository.
• Use gitk --all to see the branch.