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84 questions linked to/from How can I reconcile detached HEAD with master/origin?
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How do I get my 'Detached HEAD' commits back into master [duplicate]
Looks like a few days ago I created a branch called detached HEAD and have been committing to it. My normal process is to commit to master and then push that to origin. But I can't push detached ...
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git stuck in detached head - cannot revert to previous file in branch [duplicate]
I committed a change to my script that completely broke it. I tried restoring to a previous commit in git using this command:
git checkout 2af6889905af99b78f7401cb17b718ba86240c2a aws_utils.sh
But ...
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How to make detached head the original branch? [duplicate]
I have a branch. My local branch has 5 (m) commits which I have not pushed to remote. The same branch is 7 (n) commit ahead of me. Now what I want to do is remove my 5 (m) unnecessary commits and ...
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Git branching django [duplicate]
I am looking to edit some of the documentation found on the django project. To do this I have forked, and cloned to my local machine a copy of the django repository on github.
The issue I am facing ...
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How can I undo git reset --hard HEAD~1?
Is it possible to undo the changes caused by the following command? If so, how?
git reset --hard HEAD~1
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How can I revert multiple Git commits?
I have a Git repository that looks like this:
A <- B <- C <- D <- HEAD
I want the head of the branch to point to A, i.e., I want B, C, D, and HEAD to disappear and I want head to be ...
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Go to a particular revision
I cloned a Git repository of a certain project. Can I turn the files to the initial state and when I review the files go to revision 2, 3, 4 ... most recent? I'd like to have an overview of how the ...
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Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?
I ended up with a detached head today, the same problem as described in: git push says everything up-to-date even though I have local changes
As far as I know I didn't do anything out of the ordinary,...
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Git update submodules recursively
My project struture
ProjectA
-FrameworkA (submodule)
--Twig (submodule of FrameworkA)
How I can update submodules recursively? I already tried some git commands (on ProjectA root)
git submodule ...
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Git, How to reset origin/master to a commit?
I reset my local master to a commit by this command:
git reset --hard e3f1e37
when I enter $ git status command, terminal says:
# On branch master
# Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 7 ...
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Git: "Not currently on any branch." Is there an easy way to get back on a branch, while keeping the changes?
So I've done some work in the repository and when I'm about to commit I realize that I'm not currently on any branch.
This happens a lot when working with submodules and I am able to solve it, but ...
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Git clone particular version of remote repository
I cloned a remote git repository about a month ago. The remote repository has undergone many changes and has now become unstable. Now I need another copy of the repository, version identical to the ...
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Git restore last detached HEAD
I have a big problem in my project: this is the scenario.
I have an xcode project under Git. Today I realized that the last commit broke some tests, so i checked out the previous commit.
I used ...
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Git: How to move back and forth between commits
I have a newbie question about Git:
I need to move back and forth in a history of a branch.
That means, I need to get all the files to the state they were in in some old revision, and then I need to ...
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Where does a Git branch start and what is its length?
Every now and then I'm asked, on what commit a certain branch on git starts or if a certain commit has been created on a specific branch. The end point of a branch is pretty clear: that's where the ...
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