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git checkout won't detach head when a reference equals the detach point

Subject: git checkout won't detach head when a reference equals the detach point

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Andy Parkins· Feb 18, 2007, 18:41 UTC · lore
Hello,
Kind of convoluted, and perhaps not even an error.

On a repository with a remote tracking branch, say remotes/origin/master, then do this:

git checkout -b temp origin/master
git checkout origin/master
git branch
 * temp

This might seem like an odd thing to want to do, but I found this because the next thing I wanted to do was

git branch -D temp
Which won't work because the branch hasn't changed.
Andy
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