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Explore the branch tools in Visual Studio

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Explore the branch tools in Visual Studio

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- To work with branches in Visual Studio, there are several locations in the IDE. One is in Team Explorer. Go here, and then click on home and then click on this branches section. And that brings up this part. In the lower half of the screen you see this is data local branch. It even shows you the path when you hover over that. And I search see you that there's one branch called master and then down here, I would see all of my remotes. I only have a single remote so when I open that one up, I see I have a master branch there. So, one master branch in local. One master branch in the remote. The other place you can see this information is on the footer down here. There's a number of items down here for working with your source control in Get. The one we're looking at in this video is here. I can see that currently, I'm on the master branch. That's what's checked out. And when I click on this up arrow, it shows this…

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