Git branch switch

For that moment when you realise you’ve made changes you want to keep, but they should have been in a branch

Author

Affiliation

Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

Set up a new file and then realised you’re in main rather than in the branch you should be in?

$ git switch the-branch-you-should-be-in

Keeps the local file so it’s ready to add and commit in the new branch instead of wherever you shouldn’t have been. Tada!