Split branch into one branch per commit

Question

In this project I'm working on, I'm supposed to commit my progress to a repo using pull requests, and every commit has to be in a different branch. The problem is that the last 3 commits were pushed in a single pull requests and I'm supposed to move them into separate branches each. I tried reverting and creating new branches but it got messed up and I'm back at square 1.

Answer 1

In this answer, I will assume that your branch is called feature, and that feature has the three commits in question as its three most recent commits.

Create a new branch from feature:

git checkout -b onecommit

Nuke the two most recent commits, leaving the first of three commits remaining:

git reset --hard HEAD~2

Now push this branch containing just the first commit to your repo:

git push origin onecommit

To obtain a branch with just two commits you would follow a similar process:

git checkout -b twocommits
git reset --hard HEAD~1
git push origin twocommits