Is it possible to create GitHub branch like master:master-1?

Question

This is something crazy but I need some clarification.

I want to create two branches like a master with different alias.

Example :

branch one: master:master-1

branch two: master:master-2

I tried from terminal git checkout -b master:master-1

Getting fatal error fatal: master:master-1 is not a valid branch name.

Any idea to create branches like above.

Thanks.

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '20 at 13:34

4

: is not a valid character in a branch name.

Check the documentation for git-check-ref-format

answered Jan 21 '20 at 13:34

Bert

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '20 at 13:30

2

You're close the proper syntax. This will create and checkout master-1 at master's HEAD

git checkout -b master-1 master

answered Jan 21 '20 at 13:30

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