Question

I just made a push on the production site and all the changes were on master. But i realized the code that i pushed needs to be altered so i need to revert the last commit but take all that code from that commit and put it in another branch so i can push it later….any way to do this

Answer 1

There are many ways to fix this.

Here’s what I’d do (with a bit of extra insurance)

Assuming your HEAD is in ‘the wrong place’ (no pun intended), you can

 git branch rescue
 # you are still on master
 git reset HEAD^ # soft resets the last commit
 git push -f     # to undo the push - beware of other users of the push-branch

Now edit / rescue you commit in-place (because the last commit’s changes are now pending again). If there is an emergency, you can always checkout the rescue branch, which is simply a copy of the HEAD when you started this post.