Timeline for Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?

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Apr 8, 2021 at 14:15	comment	added	mfaani		This is a nice blog post by SO on some internals of git. Branches are just pointers to commits and how switching branches, changes where HEAD is pointing to. It’s worth the read, but if you just wanted to skip to the internals of git then scroll down to ‘How do branches work technically, under the hood?’. It has some nice screenshots
Mar 30, 2021 at 17:45	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	mentioned that detached had can be caused by checking a remote branch as well
Mar 12, 2021 at 11:15	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	Improved wording
Feb 9, 2021 at 2:47	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	added explanation on what's inside the heads
Feb 8, 2021 at 20:49	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 1 character in body
Feb 6, 2021 at 2:22	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	Improved wording
Feb 4, 2021 at 1:42	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	added another way to inspect and dig deeper
Jan 23, 2021 at 0:06	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 85 characters in body
Jan 22, 2021 at 18:58	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	added attribution
Jan 22, 2021 at 18:51	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	improved format
Jan 22, 2021 at 14:57	history	edited	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 318 characters in body
Jan 22, 2021 at 14:51	history	answered	mfaani	CC BY-SA 4.0