How to fix committing to the wrong Git branch?

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If you haven’t yet pushed your changes, you can also do a soft reset:

git reset --soft HEAD^

This will revert the commit, but put the committed changes back into your index. Assuming the branches are relatively up-to-date with regard to each other, git will let you do a checkout into the other branch, whereupon you can simply commit:

git checkout branch
git commit -c ORIG_HEAD

The -c ORIG_HEAD part is useful to not type commit message again.

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