moving committed (but not pushed) changes to a new branch after pull

Question

I\'ve done a fair bit of work (\"Your branch is ahead of \'origin/master\' by 37 commits.\") which really should have gone into its own branch rather than into master<

Answer 1

Alternatively, right after you commit to the wrong branch, perform these steps:

1. git log
2. git diff {previous to last commit} {latest commit} > your_changes.patch
3. git reset --hard origin/{your current branch}
4. git checkout -b {new branch}
5. git apply your_changes.patch

I can imagine that there is a simpler approach for steps one and two.