Let’s say you worked on a wrong branch (which happens all the time to me), and now you want to copy those changes to the correct feature branch. git actually has that covered with simple git stash command.
Documentations for the stash is pretty clear:
Use
git stashwhen you want to record the current state of the working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working directory. The command saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match theHEADcommit.
In other words, changes made on the current branch will be cleared, and stored in the stash. You can see what’s in the stash with git stash list. If you’re not certain what’s in the stash you can inspect it with git stash show.
Most common workflow would look like this:
git stash
git checkout correct-feature-branch
git stash apply
However, if you created new files on a dirty branch, then you’ll have to add extra flag to git stash, i.e. git stash --include-untracked.