About detached heads

From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <93c3eada0803140246k53408c74m21f9dc277857202d@mail.gmail.com>

This should be simple! I have a series of commits:

           1---2---3---4---5

I want to go back to 3 but not branch, so I want

           1---2---3---4---5---3

         git checkout 3...

gets me the commit on a detached head, but I don't know how to put this back as the HEAD.

I'm on git 1.5.0.5

Cheers, Geoff Russell

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