Moving Branch from Master to Another Branch in Git

Question

I usually use subversion, and am getting used to git.

I cloned a copy of a remote repository to my localhost, and then created a new branch, which we'll call "myNewBranch'. However, I created that branch off of master when it should have been a sub-branch of "DEVELOPMENT".

Here are the steps I took:

1. git clone remoteURL localhost
2. git checkout -b mynewBranch (should have switched to DEVELOPMENT first)
3. git add {whatever files I changed}
4. git commit
5. git push origin myNewBranch

Here is what the hierarchy should look like:

Master ---> DEVELOPMENT ---> myNewBranch

Here is what it currently looks like: Master--->myNewBranch

How can I rectify this?

Answer 1

Simply rebase your new branch on top of development.

git checkout myNewBranch
git rebase development

Answer 2

I accepted Igal S.'s answer, however instead of rebase I used cherry-pick.

I had a single commit, and my commit was the very last one, so I checked out DEVELOPMENT into a new branch:

git checkout -b myNewBranch DEVELOPMENT

And then ran cherry-pick on my commit (had to get the hex checksum)

git cherry-pick <hex checksum>

And then reconciled conflicts.

After that, I commited changes from cherry pick, and then deleted my old branch on both local and master. I'm still new to git, so don't take my word on this as a solution, but if might be helpful if other people run into the same problem.