How to move git commits from master to a different existing branch [duplicate]

If I’m not mistaken, you had two synchronized branches,
master and dev, and simply forgot to switch the branch,
before your commits.

If that is the case, we have:

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git log in dev

xxx
yyy
...
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and:

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git log in master

ccc
bbb
aaa
        <---- here you forgot to switch branch
xxx
yyy
...
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The solution is:

First, make sure, that:

git status -s

returns empty results.

Next, get all your new commits from master to dev with:

git checkout dev
git merge master

Now return to you master:

git checkout master

Remove unnecessary commits:

git reset --hard HEAD~3

The number ~3 is the number of commits you want to remove.

Remember: git status -s have to return empty results.
Otherwise, git reset --hard can cause data loss.

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