NAME av-git-interaction - av CLI Git Interaction BRANCH CREATION AND ADOPTION Typically in Git, a branch is created with

git branch

,

git switch

, or

git checkout

. Since

av

needs to keep track of the extra information about branches such as the parent branch, we have

av-branch

(1) to create a new branch and track the necessary information. This metadata is stored in

.git/av/av.db

. We call the branches that

av

has metadata for as "managed branches", and the branches that av doesn't have metadata for as "unmanaged branches". There is a case where you created a branch without going through

av-branch

(1). In this case, you can attach the branch metadata by using

av-adopt

(1). The opposite can be done with

av-orphan

(1). BRANCH DELETION When you merge a branch,

av-sync

(1) will prompt you to delete the merged branches. However, there can be a case where you want to delete a branch that is not merged yet. In this case, you can delete the branch with

git branch -d|-D

. When you delete a branch with

git branch -d|-D

, the branch metadata is still kept in

.git/av/av.db

. Next time you run

av

command, it'll be automatically removed. If a deleted branch has a child branch, the child branch will be orphaned. This means that the child branch still exists in the Git repository, but

av

will not manage it. In order to add it back to

av

, you can use

av-adopt

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