Moving a commit

What if you commit a change, and then realize that you committed to a different branch? How can you change that? This is what this tutorial covers.

Moving the latest commits to an existing branch

To do this, type:

git reset HEAD~ --soft

• Undoes the last commit, but leave the changes available.

git stash

• Records the state of the directory.

git checkout name-of-the-correct-branch```

- Switches to another branch.

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git stash pop

• Removes latest stashed state.

git add .

• Or try adding individual files.

git commit -m "your message here"

• Saves and Commits the changes.

Now your changes are on the correct branch

Moving the latest commits to a new Branch

To do this, type:

git branch newbranch

• Creates a new Branch. Saving all the Commits.

git reset --hard HEAD~n

• Move master back by n commits. Remember, these commits will be gone from master

git checkout newbranch

• Goes to the branch you created. It will have all the commits.

Remember: Any changes not committed will be LOST.