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

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Mar 30, 2020, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2003301238040.15750@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8sjhajp2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> >   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?
>
> b397ea48 (status: show more info than "currently not on any branch",
> 2013-03-13) is the culprit.  We used to just say the HEAD was
> detached, but for the past 7 years or so, when we know the last
> branch we were on before detaching, we report the name of the
> branch.

  got it, thanks.

rday