How to fix committing to the wrong Git branch?

Question

I just made a perfectly good commit to the wrong branch. How do I undo the last commit in my master branch and then take those same changes and get them into my upgrade bran

Answer 1

If you have a clean (un-modified) working copy

To rollback one commit (make sure you note the commit's hash for the next step):

git reset --hard HEAD^

To pull that commit into a different branch:

git checkout other-branch
git cherry-pick COMMIT-HASH

If you have modified or untracked changes

Also note that git reset --hard will kill any untracked and modified changes you might have, so if you have those you might prefer:

git reset HEAD^
git checkout .