I was doing some work in my repository and noticed a file had local changes. I didn't want them anymore so I deleted the file, thinking I can just checkout a fresh copy. I wanted to do the Git equi...

I was doing some work in my repository and noticed a file had local changes. I didn't want them anymore so I deleted the file, thinking I can just checkout a fresh copy. I wanted to do the Git equi...

I want to know whether I'm in a "HEAD detached" state in a script. Currently I parse the output of git status but I dislike doing so because I've heard that it's a bad practice to parse Git output...

I tried something like this: git branch temp to create a new branch but don't move the HEAD. But I get: # Not currently on any branch. I don't want to merge anything, I just want a new branch...

I checked out a commit/branch from master, and then checked out back to master and wrote something. After that, I committed it, but I ended up with a detached HEAD. Why? Here is what I did: Crea...

I checked out a commit/branch from master, and then checked out back to master and wrote something. After that, I committed it, but I ended up with a detached HEAD. Why? Here is what I did: Crea...

Working with Git, I had to go back to a specific commit. I made some changes and I now want to commit them. What is a proper way of doing this? My project is now in detached-HEAD state. Will my c...

Recently, while working in a git repository, I wanted to view the code at an old commit (68cce45), so I did git checkout 68cce45 After viewing the changes, I wanted to return to the current vers...

Why does git rebase -i with squashes recently result in a detached head? It used to to update my current branch with the result of the interactive rebase. How do I get interactive rebase to stop go...

Here's what I did: Checked out a remote git repository. Added to the [remote "origin] section of .git/config: fetch = +refs/heads/release/BranchName:refs/remotes/origin/release/BranchName...

I checkouted specific commit from my project and continued from there, hoping that changes after that commit would be deleted, and that commit I checkouted would be new head. I commited new changes...

Why does git allow you to commit to a detached head? Is there any pre commit hook that can disable it? What is the purpose? Many new developers do this and I'd like to find a way to disable it.

Using git I would like to go into detached HEAD state and create a new commit. I'd then like to create a tag and push both the 'detached commit' and the tag to the remote repo. Is this possible? I...

Here is a list of all my branches: $ git branch -a * temp remotes/heroku/master remotes/origin/dev remotes/origin/master When I type git checkout remotes/origin/master to switch to my o...

git status says: HEAD detached at e1997bd and git rev-parse HEAD says: e1997bd What's the meaning of this? I was thinking HEAD detached means HEAD is not pointing to to branch tip.

I know that, in Git parlance, "detached HEAD" corresponds to a state in which the symbolic reference HEAD is not pointing to any branch. I also know that git branch, for instance, will te...

This has been bothering me about git. I have a repository with multiple remotes, and I need to apply hotfixes to the remotes' master branches. So, I try doing: git fetch remote1 master git checkou...