How to create the branch from specific commit in different branch

Question

I have made several commits in the master branch and then merged them to dev branch.

I want to create a branch from a specific commit in dev branch, which was first comm

Answer 1

You have to do:

git branch  

(you were interchanging the branch name and commit)

Or you can do:

git checkout -b  

If in place of you use branch name, you get a branch out of tip of the branch.