Move the most recent commit(s) to a new branch with Git

Question

I\'d like to move the last several commits I\'ve committed to master to a new branch and take master back to before those commits were made. Unfortunately, my Git-fu is not

Answer 1

Had just this situation:

Branch one: A B C D E F     J   L M  
                       \ (Merge)
Branch two:             G I   K     N

I performed:

git branch newbranch 
git reset --hard HEAD~8 
git checkout newbranch

I expected that commit I would be the HEAD, but commit L is it now...

To be sure to land on the right spot in the history its easier to work with the hash of the commit

git branch newbranch 
git reset --hard #########
git checkout newbranch