git: Switch branch and ignore any changes without committing

Question

I was working on a git branch and was ready to commit my changes, so I made a commit with a useful commit message. I then absentmindedly made minor changes to the code that

Answer 1

If you want to discard the changes,

git checkout -- 
git checkout branch

If you want to keep the changes,

git stash save
git checkout branch
git stash pop