From: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:02:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching branch before commit
Message-ID: <CAD30837-B0EB-4752-B563-DE2517CFF0A1@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <769697AE3E25EF4FBC0763CD91AB1B0201D496E7@MBGMail01.mobot.org>

On May 10, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Ron Parker wrote:

> I know this is probably a FAQ and I thought I found it somewhere once,
> but... How do I commit changes from in my working directory to another
> (possibly non-existent) branch?
>
> All too often I am working on changes and realize I am sitting on  
> master
> or a topic branch and I need to commit my mods to different branch.  I
> really don't like:
>
>    git commit
>    git branch <other-branch>
>    git reset --hard HEAD^
>
> Is there anything like:
>    git commit -b <other-branch> [<file>...]?
>
> If not, would patches to implement such a change be accepted?

    You can do this simply by doing the following:

git checkout -b <other-branch>
git commit

    The changes in your working tree will be carried over to <other- 
branch> when you do the git-checkout command.

-Adam