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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Record original ref in detached HEAD

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Feb 26, 2013, 14:37 UTC
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> Many times I checkout a remote branch, or a tag and after a while I
> forget remember what ref I checked it out from. Saving the original
> ref would help (or is it already saved somewhere?).
It is :-). Try e.g.
  git checkout --detach
  git checkout -
(analogous to "cd -": return back to where you were before)
-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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