Take all my changes on the current branch and move them to a new branch in Git

Question

I started work on what I thought would be a minor bug fix on my master branch. However, it has spiraled out of control to the point where I wish I had created a separate bra

Answer 1

If you are trying to move the work from master to a branch that already exists, but is behind master, git won't let you switch to the other branch. In this case, do this:

git stash
git checkout oldBranch
git merge master
git checkout master
git stash apply
git checkout oldBranch

Answer 2

If you haven't been committing anything yet, you're already in the right position.

1. Create a new branch: git checkout -b edge
2. Your files haven't changed. Just git add what needs to and commit as usual.
3. When you're done committing on edge, switch back to master with git checkout and git merge edge.

Answer 3

To add to JB's answer, if you have already started to make a few commits on master for what ended up as being a "edge" effort, you could:

git stash
git checkout -b edge master
git branch -f master SHA1_before_your_commits
git stash apply