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Commit to wrong branch. How to fix?

From
Howard Miller <howardsmiller@googlemail.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2009, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID
<88A0A7C2-7DCB-45A3-B196-BED2A8AC9405@googlemail.com>

I commited to the wrong branch and I can't figure out what to do. To make matters worse I then did 'git reset HEAD^' which has made things much worse. It didn't remove the commit and now I can't change branches. I'm utterly confused. Any help much appreciated!

Moral - use git status liberally and read it carefully before doing anything. A 'git undo" command would be great is someone is feeling generous :-)

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