why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"?

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Mar 30, 2020, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2003301211330.14880@localhost.localdomain>

  probably a silly question (and probably related to using an old
version of git), but on a ubuntu 16.04.6 dev system, i used google's
"repo" tool to check out a bunch of git repos, and when i pop into
those git repos and run "git status", i see:

  # Not currently on any branch
  nothing to commit, working tree clean

i'm used to seeing "HEAD detached at <something>" ... is the above just an older style of the same message, given that this system uses git 2.9.2? or is there something else going on here?

rday

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