Creating and deleting branches within your repository (Fundamentals of Git and GitHub)

As a programmer, one should always be responsible for making their code clean as far as possible. Sometimes when you are creating a backup on your PC, things can get messy and out of hand. There can be multiple backups for your files until you reach a stage where your further modifications are not required. First of all, let’s have a look at a situation in which things start getting messy.

For example, You have multiple features that are required in your application. First of all, you decide to work on the sign-up feature of your application. So, at first, you might be developing multiple UI (User Interface) for the Sign-Up feature of your application so, till you reach the stage in which you have finalized the UI (User Interface) you will have multiple back-ups of your application.

Then, you might start working on making the Sign-Up feature functional. So, in this process too, you will be creating multiple back-ups until the situation when you reach a stable version. Hence, with all these backup for just developing a particular feature of your application other features that are required for your application will be still remaining. Now, you can imagine how much messy your backup files can get once you start working on the other features.

Purpose of creating branches

Now, the above-mentioned situations are the conditions in which branches play a vital role. Creating…