From: Peter Harris Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:55:27 GMT Subject: Re: Can someone confirm what the contents of refs/heads/master means? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:42 PM, David Copeland wrote: > Thanks for the info :) > > The reason I edited by hand is when I was on trunk (e.g. git checkout > trunk), I did a git svn dcommit and it worked, but said "you aren't on > a branch", so I was concerned I might be in some weird state (i.e. if > trunk isn't a branch, can I make a branch off of it?) Trunk is a "remote branch", so you can't check it out. If you try, you get what is called a "detached HEAD". http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#detached-head And, yes, you can make a local branch off of a remote branch. Peter Harris