From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:44:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910161137540.20122@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910160128400.32515@iabervon.org>

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> What's the state before the "git checkout HEAD~2"?

It is HEAD@{1}.

> I know I often find my git.git repos on "* (no branch)", and I don't 
> remember if I checked that out as origin/master or origin/next.

Just have a look at the output of "git reflog".  Pretty unambiguous IMHO.


Nicolas