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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2020, 16:31 UTC
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"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
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>   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.

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