From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:29:59 GMT
Subject: Re: pushing changes to a remote branch
Message-ID: <20070711192959.GB3069@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <20070710143614.GA29681@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 16:36:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>   git checkout origin/vim
>     Note: moving to "origin/vim" which isn't a local branch

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

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>