Setting up multiple branches from a github repository
This is a quick writeup about getting started with git branching via github.com. It covers creating a github repository then branching and pushing changes to it from multiple machines (work computer and a laptop).
While I have had a github account for a while, I hadn't explored branching until recently when I wanted the ability to branch our Rails app. Because the company where I work is redesigning and adding features to our application, we need the ability to maintain a master branch for the next few months that can be deployed to production on a moments notice but at the same time be able to do new development safely in a separate location (with its own deploy environment). This was enough to merit switching the app from subversion to git and figuring out how to do the basic branching that I would need to do.
