Question

I just made changes to a branch. How can I commit the changes to the other branch?

I am trying to use:

git checkout "the commmit to the changed branch" -b "the other branch"

However, I don’t think this is the right thing to do, because in this case I’m creating a new branch instead of committing the changes to “the other branch”.

Should I use the following command instead?

git merge "the other branch"

Answer 1

git checkout -b your-new-branch
git add <files>
git commit -m <message>

First, checkout to your new branch. Then, add all the files you want to commit to staging. Lastly, commit all the files you just added. You might want to do a git push origin your-new-branch afterwards, so your changes show up on the remote.