# why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? 3 messages from 2020-03-30 to 2020-03-30. Participants: Robert P. J. Day, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/53133 ## Robert P. J. Day, 2020-03-30 16:16 Subject: why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.2003301211330.14880%40localhost.localdomain ``` 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 " ... 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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2020-03-30 16:31 Subject: Re: why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq8sjhajp2.fsf%40gitster.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: ``` "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > 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 " ... 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. ``` ## Robert P. J. Day, 2020-03-30 16:39 Subject: Re: why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.2003301238040.15750%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > > > 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 " ... 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. got it, thanks. rday ```