git - How do I move unpushed committed code to another branch?

Question

So I have the following situation:

I committed some work locally, without pushing to the remote repository. I want to move this local code to another branch, because if I pull, there will be modifications that will ruin all the work I put locally.

This is the output of git status on the old branch:

On branch <branch_name>
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/<branch_name>' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean

And this is the output of git status on the newly created branch:

On branch <branch_name>
nothing to commit, working directory clean

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45216144/how-do-i-move-unpushed-committed-code-to-another-branch

Answer 1

If it's just one commit, you can simply do

git reset HEAD~1
git stash
git checkout anotherbranch
git stash pop

And if you want to put it in a fresh new branch, another way is

git branch newbranch
git reset --hard HEAD~1