How to commit changes to a new branch

Question

I just made changes to a branch  How can I commit the changes to the other branch   I am trying to use   git checkout  the commmit to the changed branch  -b  the other branch    However  I don t think this is the right thing to do  because in this case I m creating a new branch instead of committing the changes to  the other branch    Should I use the following command instead   git merge  the other branch

User · Accepted Answer

git checkout -b your-new-branch  git add  lt files gt   git commit -m  lt message gt   First  checkout your new branch   Then add all the files you want to commit to staging  Lastly  commit all the files you just added   You might want to do a git push origin your-new-branch afterward so your changes show up on the remote

User · Answer

If I understand right  you ve made a commit to changed branch and you want to copy that commit to other branch   Easy   git checkout other branch git cherry-pick changed branch

User · Answer

If you haven t committed changes  If your changes are compatible with the other branch  This is the case from the question because the OP wants to commit to a new branch and also applies if your changes are compatible with the target branch without triggering an overwrite   As in the accepted answer by John Brodie  you can simply checkout the new branch and commit the work   git checkout -b branch name git add  lt files gt  git commit -m  message    If your changes are incompatible with the other branch  If you get the error   error  Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout      Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches   Then you can stash your work  create a new branch  then pop your stash changes  and resolve the conflicts   git stash git checkout -b branch name git stash pop   It will be as if you had made those changes after creating the new branch  Then you can commit as usual   git add  lt files gt  git commit -m  message    If you have committed changes  If you want to keep the commits in the original branch  See the answer by Carl Norum with cherry-picking  which is the right tool in this case   git checkout  lt target name gt  git cherry-pick  lt original branch gt    If you don t want to keep the commits in the original branch  See the answer by joeytwiddle on this potential duplicate  Follow any of the above steps as appropriate  then roll back the original branch   git branch -f  lt original branch gt   lt earlier commit id gt    If you have pushed your changes to a shared remote like GitHub  you should not attempt this roll-back unless you know what you are doing

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