Git create branch from range of previous commits?

Question

I have a bunch of commits for an OS project and I want to pull out just the last say 20 commits into another branch so I can pull request.

How could I do this? The r

Answer 1

Do you want the 20 commits to remain on the current branch? If not, then keep a reference to the current branch back 20 commits with:

git checkout -b current_branch_save current_branch~20

Then, move the last 20 commits with rebase

git checkout current_branch
git rebase --onto another_branch current_branch~20 current_branch

Now you've got current_branch_save with your ~100 'not quite ready' commits and current_branch on another_branch with the last 20.