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84 questions linked to/from How can I reconcile detached HEAD with master/origin?
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How to move master to HEAD?
* [971f835] (HEAD, original_idea) Now working here. Some comment 9
* [692b673] Some comment 8
* [3ebff62] Reverted to original idea. Some comment 7
| * [72ea01d] (master) Decided it wasn't worth the ...
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How to recover commit from 'detached head state'?
I checked out another branch with updates then made a few changes, switched back to the main git and now the changes disappeared! Can I get them back? the terminal was basically:
$ git commit
[...
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cannot push to github: everything up-to-date
On github, I forked an old version of another project. I made some changes and am trying to push them onto my fork on github. I commited the changes locally, then tried git push, but this simply tells ...
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git checkout my_branch vs. git checkout origin/my_branch
I was on branch1 when I checkout branch2 like this (both branches are existing).
git checkout origin/branch2
then I got a detached head error:
You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, ...
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How to make submodule with detached HEAD to be attached to actual HEAD?
When I add a Git submodule to a Git repository like this,
git submodule add ssh://server/proj1/ proj1
git submodule init
git submodule update
the added submodule will be in detached HEAD mode. I don'...
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How to retrieve the git branch name that was built by Jenkins when using inverse branch selection strategy?
We have one Jenkins job which builds every branch except master when there are new commits. This behavior can be configured via git plugin's 'choosing strategy:inverse' so that it listens to every ...
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Why does Git not store the branch name as part of the commit?
Please note: I'm not trying to restart the argument whether Mercurial or Git is better, I just have a technical question that I, as a Mercurial user, don't understand. I'm also not sure whether SO is ...
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Set master branch to latest tag
This is an example of how my git repo is right now:
v1.0 v1.1 v1.2
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a - b - c
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master HEAD
I usually commit, tag and push tags like ...
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Git Push From One Remote Branch To Another Remote Branch
I am working with three forked versions of a source code. FYI I changed the names to not disclose identities/repos. Here is how it is laid out:
MyMBP:~/Documents/_library$ git remote -v
abc https://...
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Can't get automated release working with Hudson + Git + Maven Release Plugin
As the title says, I'm trying to get an automated release job working on Hudson. It's a Maven project, and all the code is in Git. Manually, I do the release on my personal machine like so:
git ...
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HEAD detached at the HEAD commit id, what's the meaning?
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.
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Git push doesn't fail but doesn't work
I'm using Git and I'm in front of a several problem:
I can push, my coworkers can pull it, and the opposite. But the version which is on the remote is not up-to-date: if I write a TEST in the html, ...
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Git detached head issue
I've read many posts related to this issue today( one useful one here: Fix a Git detached head? & Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?).
Today I've been scratching my head. I'm not ...
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Git checkout to recent commit
I have a total of 24 commits, and I had checkout to commit 15. How can I go back to my last commit?
Note: I have run a lot of commits. For instances,
git revert, git checkout, git reset.
I don't know ...
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How to push with TortoiseGit
In push following errors occured
git.exe push "origin" master:master
To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected
Merge the remote changes before pushing again. See ...
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