I am having trouble finding the menu item to switch branch using Xcode 9. The working copies menu seems to have disappeared. Any ideas?
Xcode 9
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I am having trouble finding the menu item to switch branch using Xcode 9. The working copies menu seems to have disappeared. Any ideas?
Xcode 9
Xcode 8
master
icon.To switch to a different branch
Checkout...
Checkout
button.Expose the left side window (Navigator) in your Xcode by selecting this option (you will see this on the top right side of your Xcode window):
Now select the second tab:
Right click on the branch you are intending to checkout and hit the checkout button from menu:
It seems that Apple has moved Source Controls feature like change branch
, version history
to separate tab in Navigator area for Xcode 9.x
Below are step to perform branch switch :
Navigator area
(if it is hidden) by pressing left pane window present on top right of Xcode or use shortcut cmd + 2Source control navigator
you can see Branches
, Tag
present for your project.Now, if you want to switch branch then select the branch to switch and right click on it.
Select Checkout. This will prompt an alert Do you want to check out “<branch name>”?
Select Checkout
.
Note: In order to switch between branches you need to commit or discard changes done in project.
1) Press show navigator button (top right corner of Xcode):
2) Show the project navigator, expand Remotes
folder:
3) Expand the origin folder, right click the branch you want to use, and click Checkout...
.
Follow the below link for the clear explanation of each and every functionality like, Commit, pull, push, etc.
https://www.raywenderlich.com/153084/use-git-source-control-xcode-9