How to undo commit, put into new branch then do a PR?

Question

I have a master branch that is protected with push only by PR.

Say I thoughtlessly on master:

git add .
git commit -m "bunch of changes"

But I push to the branch and am rejected because the branch is protected. How do I backtrack, preserve my changes, and do a PR?

Just pull from `origin/master` then rebase onto the latest commit. — Mateen Ulhaq, Jul 09 '17 at 03:18
Possible duplicate of [Move the most recent commit(s) to a new branch with Git](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1628563/move-the-most-recent-commits-to-a-new-branch-with-git) — Clint, Jul 09 '17 at 03:20

Sajib Khan · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-09T03:29:11.370

Undo the last commit of master branch.

$ git reset --soft HEAD~1      # undo the last commit and keep the changes in working tree

Checkout to new branch (say, feature), then Add, Commit and Push to remote feature branch.

$ git checkout -b feature      # create and checkout to new 'feature' branch
$ git add -A                   # add the changes 
$ git commit -m 'message'      # commit 
$ git push origin HEAD         # push to remote 'feature' branch

Now, Create a PR from feature branch.

Alternate:

Checkout to new branch (say, feature) and push the feature branch to remote.
```
$ git checkout -b feature
$ git push origin HEAD
```

Switch to master branch and undo the last commit.

$ git checkout master
$ git reset --hard HEAD~1

Or, (reset the local 'master' with 'origin/master')
$ git checkout master 
$ git fetch origin
$ git reset --hard origin/master

Now, Create a PR from feature branch.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '17 at 03:21

git reset HEAD~
git checkout -b "name-of-new-branch"
git -am "my fancy new commit"
git push origin "name-of-new-branch"

reset HEAD~ will undo your last commit. Checkout -b makes creates a new branch and checks it out, then you just add and commit your changes there and push

How to undo commit, put into new branch then do a PR?

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