Making changes in a branch

You can use GitHub Desktop to create a new branch off of an existing branch in your repository so you can safely experiment with changes.

Worktrees let you work on multiple branches of the same repository at the same time, so you can switch contexts, review changes, or make hotfixes without stashing your work.

GitHub Desktop tracks all changes to all files as you edit them. You can decide how to group the changes to create meaningful commits.

You can run Git hooks in your shell environment and bypass commit hooks directly from GitHub Desktop.

You can temporarily save your changes without committing them to a branch by stashing the changes in GitHub Desktop.

You can see details about any commit in GitHub Desktop, including a diff of the changes the commit introduced.

As you commit changes to your project locally, you can push those changes to GitHub from GitHub Desktop so that others may access them from the remote repository.