Question

Well I’ve been working for a project. today I was experimenting with windows specific wchar and I needed to do change a lot of code since morning and I ended up with an ugly mess. That I can clear out latter but right now I need to do some mainstream works on last working commit. But I don’t want to loose this work. So how can I keep this work in some branch for future and revert my workspace back to last commit ?

Answer 1

You can create a new branch and commit your changes to it:

git checkout -b topic/ugly-mess
git commit -a -m 'Checkpointing mess.'

Then go back to your mainstream branch which has the last working commit:

git checkout master

If you want your to publish your “local mess” upstream, push the branch:

git push origin topic/ugly-mess