Re: Recovering from a "detached from" HEAD

>> The commit the message shows is meant to indicate where your unnamed
>> branch diverged at named branches.  Immediately after moving to the
>> unnamed branch by detaching the HEAD, the message says "at"; the
>> HEAD is pointing directly at the tip of the then-current branch and
>> that is where the tip of the unnamed branch is.  You can tell from
>> that message that you will not lose any commit if you were to check
>> out a named branch from that state.
>>
>> After you make a commit on the unnamed branch, you have something to
>> lose if you were to check out a named branch from that state, as the
>> detached HEAD is the _only_ thing these new commits you built on top
>> of the fork point.  Upon seeing "HEAD detached from 9745ede235", you
>> could do "git log 9745ede235.." and see what you would end up losing
>> if you were to switch to another branch without saving them first to
>> a named branch.
>
> Thank you for the detailed explanation. I was for some reason under the
> impression that "git status" would show the current HEAD, rather than
> where it was detached. Why I thought that, I don't know.