How to Checkout the Previous Branch in Git

Sometimes, I forget the last branch name with how many branches I jump between.

Here's a simple way to switch to your previous branch in Git.

git checkout -

Or another way:

git checkout @{-1}

This second one is handy because you can use it to checkout N-th last branch/commit. So if you wanted to checkout 3 branches ago you could use:

git checkout @{-3}

I use the second way mostly because I find the @{-N} very useful (and it's a built-in reflex of mine now).