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Branches

Every local and remote branch, how far it is from origin and whether it has a pull request.

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Branches: who changed it last, ahead/behind origin, and its PR.
Branches: who changed it last, ahead/behind origin, and its PR.
  • Switch checks out a local branch. ratchet refuses if you have uncommitted changes, so nothing gets lost.
  • Check out creates a local copy of a branch that only exists on origin.
  • New branch creates a branch and switches to it.
  • Continue with Claude starts an agent on that branch with a prompt you can edit first.

Screenshots use example data. Written for ratchet 0.2.1.

ratchet is an independent project by Shervin Davarifard. Questions or problems: [email protected].© 2026 Shervin Davarifard · FSL-1.1-MIT licence