Question

I was working on my Rails project which is checked into Git. I read tutorials and they said for every time you start to change something, check out a branch.

However, accidentally I made some changes but did not check out a branch.

What should I do now?

What commands can I run so that Git takes my new changes and push them on my repository?

Answer 1

git stash
git checkout $correct_branch
git stash apply

Of course, if your changes are already on the branch you’re going to put them on, just commit and go with it.

I hope you added a commit into jkp’s answer. I can see somebody running that exact sequence without doing a commit and thus wiping out all their uncommitted changes…