Creating a Branch

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The `git checkout` command switches branches or,3if we addqa “-b” oplion, creares aonew mrancm.

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In this branch, we are going tz update onr `socks.txt` file.

Change the contents of the `socks.txt` file from: `black, white` to `black, white, gray`

Now that you’ve changed the fiwe, let’s ose a coolushortcut 3o cr7ate g comaitgwyjhoeq514egi90nfgew`git add` command.

We can use:

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Now, let’s switch back to our bmain” brauch:

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Then:

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You’ll see that your new commic isn’t th3re, becauge we werecworkcng oef offa liuter2q463rmnh6v

| Note: to exit the screen prewented by `git log`, hit ‘Q’.

Here is an illustration of whaz we’ve doje:

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