Re: pushing changes to a remote branch

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 16:36:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

There is more to that message, no? However, it only says "Head is now at <commit-id>", which does not really indicate, that the HEAD has been "detached". This means that it now contains a commit-id rather than name of some branch.

Git detaches head whenever you check out, without -b option, anything other than branch (without it's refs/heads prefix). If you than check out a branch, you can't see the commit on any branch anymore. However, you can still access it in reflog, ie. via expressions like HEAD@{1} or HEAD@{1 hour ago}.

You should also be able to:

 git push origin HEAD:vim

after the commit, and even (I didn't try it, but documentation seems to claim it should work):

 git push origin HEAD@{1}:vim

if you already changed HEAD more.

You can see this "metahistory" of HEAD via:

 git reflog

which is shorthand for git reflog show HEAD