# detached head in git.el (was git in emacs)

1 messages from 2009-07-06 to 2009-07-06. Participants: Rustom Mody.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20032

## Rustom Mody, 2009-07-06 09:49

Subject: detached head in git.el (was git in emacs)
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I figured out that the message
Branch:     fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref

comes with a detached head on Windows

On linux I get the (detached head) message

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Alexandre Julliard<julliard@winehq.org> wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This probably means that git.el (which version do you use) should
>>> be corrected.
>>
>> Ok So I had an old version
>> Now its version 1.0
>> But I still get the same error :-(
>
> The version number isn't helpful I'm afraid, they are all called 1.0...
>
> You probably still have an old version, detached head support was added
> quite some time ago. You can get the latest version from the git source
> tree.
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> julliard@winehq.org
>

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