I am new to Git and need to make a quick adjustment on my branches.
I started an activity in a wrong local branch "X".
I would like to migrate the changes to a local branch "Y" to give commit from "Y" and undo the changes in X.
How do I create a Y branch from local X before undoing X changes?
I'm using Visual Studio 2017 with the Git extension for VS.
First you create a new branch:
git branch Y
It will already be with the modifications made to the X branch. If you want to check if everything is right, make a git checkout Y and test the modifications made.
In branch X to return to the last commit just use:
git revert HEAD~1
Remembering that HEAD~1 will only return a commit (the latter) if you use HEAD~2 will return to two commits and so on.