[Bug]Cannot create 'my-first-branch'

[damo-maker]

Describe the bug There is no Create branch button in the main drop down box

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Code tab
2. Click on 'main'
3. enter 'my-first-branch' in the main drop down
4. With 'branches' selected can only see 'Nothing to show'

Expected behavior I expected to see and be able click on 'Create branch:my-first-branch from main'

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Device information I am on a Mac M1 running Ventura OS

[ranadip01in]

I think the bug is solved. That bug is not occured in my windows machine. You should try again.

[borisUOP]

Hi, I think the bug still persists.

[skroger30]

I think the bug still persists. I cannot see the option to create my-first-branch.

[andrewgreen76]

My solution: I just used ChatGPT to help me nail this sucker via the Bash terminal.

1) So first, you'll have to learn to use the Bash terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) if you have a Unix-like. I don't have instructions for Windows users.

2) Then you have to clone your remote repo to make a local copy of it in your system (unless you already have one), ideally in your 'user home' directory. Feel free to 'git clone' it straight to your 'user home' directory; it will simply create a local repo directory in there instead of dumping the content itself. What I did is I typed the command 'git clone https://...' with the https://... url that I copied from the remote repo page's green Code button drop-down menu, ... and voila. (Sorry, I've never used GitHub with SSH or GitHub CLI.)

• Check out this link on my personal super-repo. You'll have to excuse the ever-changing mess I make on my repo, but hopefully the top files with somewhat descriptive names will work well enough for you to create a new branch.

3) Basically, once inside the local repo in the Bash CLI, you type 'git branch my-first-branch' to finally create a new branch of the main branch. You don't have to 'checkout' to shift the local repo's "focus" on that branch quite yet.

4) Once you do that, feel free to type 'git branch', which should list all the branches that sprouted from your local repo. However, you've only made a change to your local repo.

• (Before you push the changes I don't think you have to commit anything quite yet as we weren't shown how to do that. But if you are paranoid like me, type 'git commit -m "blahblahblah" '. Nothing should take place, really. Commits are there for files, not branches or directories.)

5) Finally, for the added branch to reflect on the remote repo, definitely do this: push with 'git push --set-upstream origin my-first-branch'.

6) Once that's done, refresh the page of your remote repo and look up the branches there.

I understand it's quite an event, and hopefully they'll get the documentation squared away. Never stop trying!

(BTW, I'm using Ubuntu, in case if you are curious, but I don't think it really matters. I think it's an issue on the server side. Nothing about any client should change the remote repo's features/content.)

[sinsukehlab]

It seems that you were trying to create a new branch on the skills/introduction-to-github repository, to which you don't have write access. You should first generate your new repository and create a new branch on that repository.

[Mokatoto]

نعم

[cmwilson21]

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue as it seems to have been solved 👍