A DevOps engineer is working on a local copy of a Git repository. The engineer would like to switch from the main branch to the staging branch but notices the staging branch does not exist. Which of…

The correct answer is D. git checkout -b staging. The git checkout -b staging command creates a new branch called staging and switches to it. This is useful when you want to create a new branch locally and begin working on it. The -b flag is used to create the branch if it doesn't exist.

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A DevOps engineer is working on a local copy of a Git repository. The engineer would like to switch from the main branch to the staging branch but notices the staging branch does not exist. Which of the following Git commands should the engineer use to perform this task?

Options

Agit branch -m staging
Bgit commit -m staging
Cgit status -b staging
Dgit checkout -b staging

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A
8% (3)
B
3% (1)
C
3% (1)
D
87% (33)

Explanation

The git checkout -b staging command creates a new branch called staging and switches to it. This is useful when you want to create a new branch locally and begin working on it. The -b flag is used to create the branch if it doesn't exist.

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