Create Git branch with current changes

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I started working on my master branch thinking that my task would be easy  After a while I realized it would take more work and I want to do all this work in a new branch     How can I create a new branch and take all these changes with me without dirtying master

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If you hadn t made any commit yet  only  1  branch  and  3  checkout  would be enough  Or  in one command  git checkout -b newBranch  As mentioned in the git reset man page     git branch topic wip        1    git reset --hard HEAD 3     2   NOTE  use  git reset --soft HEAD 3  explanation below    git checkout topic wip      3     You have made some commits  but realize they were premature to be in the  master  branch  You want to continue polishing them in a topic branch  so create  topic wip  branch off of the current HEAD  Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits  Switch to  topic wip  branch and keep working      Note  due to the  destructive  effect of a git reset --hard command  it does resets the index and working tree  Any changes to tracked files in the working tree since  lt commit gt  are discarded   I would rather go with     git reset --soft HEAD 3     2    This would make sure I m not losing any private file  not added to the index   The --soft option won t touch the index file nor the working tree at all  but resets the head to  lt commit gt   just like all modes do      With Git 2 23   the new command git switch would create the branch in one line  with the same kind of reset --hard  so beware of its effect    git switch -f -c topic wip HEAD 3

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Like stated in this question  Git  Create a branch from unstagged uncommited changes on master  stash is not necessary    Just use   git checkout -b topic newbranch   Any uncommitted work will be taken along to the new branch   If you try to push you will get the following message     fatal  The current branch feature NEWBRANCH has no upstream branch  To   push the current branch and set the remote as upstream  use  git push --set-upstream origin feature feature NEWBRANCH    Just do as suggested to create the branch remotely   git push --set-upstream origin feature feature NEWBRANCH

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Since you haven t made any commits yet  you can save all your changes to the stash  create and switch to a new branch  then pop those changes back into your working tree   git stash    save local modifications to new stash git checkout -b topic newbranch git stash pop    apply stash and remove it from the stash list

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Follow these steps    Create a new branch   git branch newfeature  Checkout new branch   this will not reset your work    git checkout newfeature  Now commit your work on this new branch   git commit -s    Using above steps will keep your original branch clean and you dont have to do any  git reset --hard

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To add new changes to a new branch and push to remote   git branch branch name git checkout branch name git push origin branch name   Often times I forget to add the origin part to push and get confused why I don t see the new branch commit in bitbucket

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