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Re: "Not currently on any branch"

Subject: Re: "Not currently on any branch"

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2 messages between Oct 5, 2009 and Oct 5, 2009.

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Timothy Washington· Oct 5, 2009, 04:01 UTC · lore
Thanks for all the responses so far. But if you take a look at my repo (http://repo.or.cz/w/Bookkeeping.git), at the bottom of the page, there's clearly a 'ui-integration' branch. But if I try to go to my ui-integration branch, I get the message below. So I'm just clueless as to where it went. If use the -b option, then I'll create a new branch. But I don't want that. I want to keep all the data that was in my original 'ui-integration' branch.

[timothyw] ~/Projects/Bookkeeping.4 $ git checkout ui-integration error: pathspec 'ui-integration' did not match any file(s) known to git.

These are what's in the files under my .git/ directory. And again, I'm foggy as to where my ui-integration branch went and to how to get it back.

"HEAD" cee341c53a249f7d003a12cfeb8cc743275d028f

"ORIG_HEAD" baca7c9f43e44d67406d3671e0afd84eaea870a3

"config"
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = http://repo.or.cz/r/Bookkeeping.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

"description" Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.

fig. 1

Thanks Tim 

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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Tim <timothyjwashington@yahoo.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2009 3:22:29 AM
Subject: Re: "Not currently on any branch"
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0000, Tim wrote:
> I have some code in a git repo that is "Not currently on any branch". Now,
> there's the master branch and another branch 'ui-integration' that I'm
> using in this project. I don't know how the project got into this headless
> state, but I need to be using the 'ui-integration' branch.

It can happen either by explicitly detaching HEAD using "git checkout <commit>", or if you used rebase and it is still in progress.

Clemens

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Junio C Hamano· Oct 5, 2009, 04:19 UTC · re: Timothy Washington · lore
Timothy Washington <timothyjwashington@yahoo.ca> writes:
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> Thanks for all the responses so far. But if you take a look at my repo
> (http://repo.or.cz/w/Bookkeeping.git), at the bottom of the page,
> there's clearly a 'ui-integration' branch. But if I try to go to my
> ui-integration branch, I get the message below. So I'm just clueless as
> to where it went. If use the -b option, then I'll create a new
> branch. But I don't want that. I want to keep all the data that was in
> my original 'ui-integration' branch.
>
> [timothyw] ~/Projects/Bookkeeping.4 $ git checkout ui-integration
> error: pathspec 'ui-integration' did not match any file(s) known to git.

I do not think it has anything to do with "Not currently on any branch", but judging from this

> [remote "origin"]
>     url = http://repo.or.cz/r/Bookkeeping.git
>     fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
one possibility to see the above error message is to do this:
    $ git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/Bookkeeping.git
    $ cd Bookkeeping
    $ git checkout ui-integration
    error: pathspec 'ui-integration' did not match any file(s) known to git.

In a clone, your local branch namespace is not cluttered with all the different branches your upstream repository has. To wit:

    $ git branch
    * master
    $ git branch -a
    * master
      remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
      remotes/origin/master
      remotes/origin/ui-integration

If you want to further work on the ui-integration topic, you would do something like:

    $ git checkout -b ui-integration origin/ui-integration
    Branch ui-integration set up to track remote branch ui-integration from origin.
    Switched to a new branch 'ui-integration'
    $ git branch
      master
    * ui-integration

On the other hand, if you are not interested in working on that topic but just want to look at it, e.g. merge it to your master:

    $ git branch
    * master
    $ git merge origin/ui-integration

without creating a local ui-integration branch at all (iow, skip that "checkout -b" step above altogether).

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