Push, Checkout & More

The branch list’s right-click menu concentrates pushing, checkout, and the day-to-day branch operations.

Push

Right-click a branch → Push '{branch}'... opens the push dialog:

• It shows the local → remote target mapping; either name can be changed (pushing to an existing remote branch under a different name asks for confirmation);
• Options: Push all branches, Set upstream (bind upstream on first push), Push tags, Dry run;
• History-rewriting Force and the safer Force with lease (refuses when someone else has pushed — preferred). Operations that rewrite history, like pushing after a rebase, require one of these;
• A risk hint about force pushes is shown in the dialog.

Checkout

Right-click a branch → Checkout to switch branches — local branches check out directly, while a remote branch or tag opens the checkout dialog:

• New branch name — the local branch to create, prefilled from the ref;
• Create new local branch (-B), Track remote as upstream (--track, remote branches only), Force (-f), Merge (--merge).

The session’s working directory follows the switch; the terminal and the Git panel reflect the new branch immediately.

Detached HEAD

Checking out a bare commit (e.g. checking out a commit while browsing history) detaches HEAD. The next commit then opens the Detached HEAD dialog: choose an existing branch to commit to, + Create new branch… in place, or Skip for now.

More operations

• Stash — stash all changes onto the stack (message optional) from the changes header; the STASHES list supports Pop (apply and remove) and Drop (discard, irreversible);
• Deleting branches/worktrees — via the right-click menu on the entry, both with irreversible-action confirmations;
• History & reverting — HISTORY lists commits; right-click for file history, diff against the working tree, or revert to a revision;
• Copy — branch names and commit hashes copy in one click, handy for pasting to an agent or a colleague.