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Re: "Not currently on any branch"

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Oct 4, 2009, 07:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20091004072229.GA14142@localhost>
In-Reply-To
<loom.20091002T215942-663@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0000, Tim wrote:
> I have some code in a git repo that is "Not currently on any branch". Now,
> there's the master branch and another branch 'ui-integration' that I'm
> using in this project. I don't know how the project got into this headless
> state, but I need to be using the 'ui-integration' branch.

It can happen either by explicitly detaching HEAD using "git checkout <commit>", or if you used rebase and it is still in progress.

Clemens
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  1. TimOct 2, 2009
  2. Steven NoonanOct 2, 2009
  3. Alex RiesenOct 2, 2009
  4. Sean EstabrooksOct 2, 2009
  5. Clemens BuchacherOct 4, 2009

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