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In this article, you'll learn how to save commits to a new or existing branch in Git.

This article explains how to move commits to:

1. A new branch
2. Existing branches

You’ll often find yourself committing the same staged changes to different branches. Git allows you to do this conveniently, as shown below.

Moving commits to a new branch in Git

In this section, you will learn how to move commits from your workspace branch to a new branch.

Create a new branch containing all commits. Use git branchthe command to initialize a new branch.

git branch <new-branch>

The above command will create a branch, a new-branch.

Use git resetthe command to reset the commit to the last update.

git reset --keep HEAD~N

We use --keepthe -d backup option to back up uncommitted changes.

Moving commits to an existing synced branch in Git

To better understand this feature, we will use a practical example. We submit to <wrong branch>instead of <right branch>.

Assuming the two are in sync, how do you bring the commits to <right branch>?

Use git checkoutthe command to navigate to an existing branch.

git checkout <right branch>

Use git mergethe command to move commits.

git merge <wrong branch>

To delete bad submissions, go to <wrong branch>.

git checkout <wrong branch>

Use git resetthe command to revert the commit.

git reset --keep HEAD~N

Moving commits to an existing branch in Git

Let's use a practical example to better understand this. If you wanted to move a specific commit without merging the branch, how would you do it?

In the following example, we will move a commit from <wrong branch>to <right branch>.

Switch to <right branch>.

git checkout <right branch>

Use git cherry-pickthe command and the commit's hash to move it, as shown below.

git cherry-pick <sha1-commit-hash>

Go back to and remove the commit 错误的分支using the command.git reset