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Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 1, 2010, 23:37 UTC
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Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
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>> For my rather fresh eye it looks more like unnamed (anonymous?) branch
>> than a temporary one. Doesn't detached HEAD behave exactly like a
>> regular HEAD but pointing to the tip of an unnamed branch?
>
> I strongly concur with this.
>
> And as long as I'm weighing in, it would also help to prevent confusion 
> if it were made clear that this unnamed branch doesn't actually come 
> into existence unless and until you do a commit.

This shows that you are still thinking a branch is a line (or multiple lines). It is not.

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  1. Steve DiverFeb 1, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2010
  3. Sergei OrganovFeb 1, 2010
  4. Ron GarretFeb 1, 2010
  5. Petr BaudisFeb 1, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2010
  8. Ron GarretFeb 1, 2010
  9. Petr BaudisFeb 2, 2010
  10. Ron GarretFeb 2, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2010
  12. Ron GarretFeb 2, 2010
  13. J. Bruce FieldsFeb 2, 2010
  14. Ron GarretFeb 2, 2010
  15. J. Bruce FieldsFeb 3, 2010
  16. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  17. Ron GarretFeb 2, 2010
  18. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  19. tytso@mit.eduFeb 2, 2010
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2010
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2010
  22. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2010
  23. Jay SoffianFeb 1, 2010
  24. Steve DiverFeb 1, 2010

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