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186 questions linked to/from Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?
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Understanding detached HEAD in git [duplicate]
I am learning git and am following the excellent tutorials at http://gitimmersion.com.
In those tutorials, there is a blurb that tries to explain detached HEADs, and that states:
A “detached HEAD” ...
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Can i commit to the origin/master branch locally? [duplicate]
i did this
git checkout origin/master
# made some changes
git commit -a -m "test something"
After this i did a git checkout master. Then i got this message
Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, ...
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downloaded a repo instead of cloning it from gitlab and fixed bugs,now want to push [duplicate]
Being new to git and gitlab, instead of cloning the repository i downloaded it,fixed bugs in it over 100+ files have changed, now i want to push it to gitlab.
I have tried
-Cloning the repository......
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Can't switch from detached HEAD when trying a hard reset? [duplicate]
I made a test structure like so:
A - B - C
I checked out commit A, so I was in detached HEAD. But then I thought, "shouldn't a hard reset to the previous head do the same as checking out master?" So ...
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What if I have a "disconnected commit" in Git? [duplicate]
I don't even know how I got there. I just did a
git commit -am "Some kind of comment"
and git says:
fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
To push the history leading to the current (...
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I was in the master branch, but after checking out a previous commit, I find I'm in a detached commit, not in the master branch. What is the case? [duplicate]
This happens often in my work recently. For example, I was in the master branch, and I want to go back to a specific commit that I see from the 'git log' command. After I check out that previsou ...
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What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?
What are the differences between git pull and git fetch?
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How do I fix a Git detached head?
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 ...
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How can I reconcile detached HEAD with master/origin?
I'm new at the branching complexities of Git. I always work on a single branch and commit changes and then periodically push to my remote origin.
Somewhere recently, I did a reset of some files to ...
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How do you rename a Git tag?
Today I was looking through the logs for a project and realized that I fat fingered a tag name some time ago. Is there some way to rename the tag? Google hasn't turned up anything useful.
I realize I ...
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How can I specify a branch/tag when adding a Git submodule?
How does git submodule add -b work?
After adding a submodule with a specific branch, a new cloned repository (after git submodule update --init) will be at a specific commit, not the branch itself (...
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How to permanently remove few commits from remote branch
I know that's rewriting of history which is bad yada yada.
But how to permanently remove few commits from remote branch?
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fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch
I'm trying to push one of my projects to github, and I keep getting this error:
peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git push
fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch.
To push the ...
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git push says "everything up-to-date" even though I have local changes
I have a remote gitosis server and a local git repository, and each time I make a big change in my code, I'll push the changes to that server too.
But today I find that even though I have some local ...
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What's the difference between HEAD, working tree and index, in Git?
Can someone tell me the difference between HEAD, working tree and index, in Git?
From what I understand, they are all names for different branches. Is my assumption correct?
I found this:
A single ...
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