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  1. Make sure you have main checked out:
    git checkout main

  2. Create the new branch:
    git branch my-new-branch

  3. Remove the unwanted commit from main:

git status
git reset --hard HEAD~

(careful!)

  1. Check out the new branch!
    git checkout my-new-branch

Smiling stick figure with medium length straight hair: git branch and git checkout -b both create a new branch. The difference is git checkout -b also checks out the branch