Branches - Git Recipes - page 151

Now if you list the branches with the $ git branch command, you will notice
that the repository contains two branches listed as:
doc
* master
The asterisk denotes a current branch. It means that you are still in the master
branch. The repository now looks like Figure 5-3 .
Figure 5-3 . The repository from Recipe 5-1 with the two branches master and doc
Now you need to create three revisions on the branch named doc . First, you have to
switch to this branch with the command:
$ git checkout doc
Right now the command:
$ git branch
prints:
* doc
master
The above output informs you that you currently are on branch named doc . Your
commits will now go to this new branch. You can create three commits d1 , d2 , and d3
with the following procedure: