CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 24998

New branch from existing project in git?

I have a project that I've been working on with no initial commit. Recently I did git init.

Now I realized that this needs to be in a branch of its own, let's call it feature-i-should-have-init-first-coded-later.

How can I move this untracked, uncommited work to the branch while leaving the master empty?

Update:
git status yields this

On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  noob.txt

Upvotes: 2

Views: 145

Answers (2)

RomanPerekhrest
RomanPerekhrest

Reputation: 92854

If you don’t want to commit what you’ve been working on yet - you can stash the changes.
Go through the following steps:

git stash
git checkout -b feature-i-should-have-init-first-coded-later
git stash apply

Now your new branch contains all recent changes
https://git-scm.com/book/no-nb/v1/Git-Tools-Stashing

Upvotes: 1

emackey
emackey

Reputation: 12418

You can just git checkout -b new-branch here, since nothing is committed to master yet. You can then stage and commit to the new branch.

Upvotes: 2

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