Every now and then I forget to actually checkout to a new branch when I start to work on a new task and then I find myself accidently commiting my work to the main/master branch and I have to google on how to bring the changes to a new branch and remove them from the main/master branch.
As long as the commits are not pushed to a remote repository - hopefully your main/master branch is protected from direct commits - it’s very easy to fix:
First of create a new branch with:
git branch my-new-branch
All the commits that you accidently commited to the main branch will
now be available on this new branch.
You can then remove the accidental commits from main with:
git reset --hard origin/main
The changes are now removed from you local main branch but exists on the new
branch that you created earlier, which you can now checkout to with:
git checkout my-new-branch