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

Here is a much simpler way:

1. Create a new branch

2. On your new branch do a git merge master- this will merge your committed (not pushed) changes to your new branch

3. Delete you local master branch git branch -D master Use -D instead of -d because you want to force delete the branch.

4. Just do a git fetch on your master branch and do a git pull on your master branch to ensure you have your teams latest code.