Adding new branch to git for Urgent Task

[petrogromovo]

Hello,
Having o lot of modified file in development on my local OS I need to make urgent
modifications of some files and upload them to server. I do

1. Check that I have many modified files on master

git status
    On branch master
    ... With many modified files

2. I create new branch and make it active:

git branch dev_1_UrgentTask
git checkout dev_1_UrgentTask
    ...
     git branch
    * dev_1_UrgentTask  // Current
      master
    ...

3. I modified 2 files, which I need to upload to git but when I run command

$ git status 
    On branch dev_1_UrgentTask
    Changes not staged for commit:
      ... // I see many uncomitted files I had priorly on step 1)

4. The thing is that I expected to see only 2 files I modified on step 3) which I have to add and commit in dev_1_UrgentTask branch.
   Did I miss some steps?

Thanks!

[m_hutley]

Right, so when you branched the repo, it branched it from the master branch. At that point, master and dev_1_UrgentTask are identical - and neither one has your modified files in them.

You made more modifications.

Git is now telling you you need to Add your file modifications to a Commit, and then commit that commit, so that it will update the repo.

You see all those modified files because the branch’s contents match the master’s - and all of those files are different from the master.

[petrogromovo]

Had I to run
git stash
before I created dev_1_UrgentTask branch?

[m_hutley]

That would have worked, yes.