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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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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 | | | a - b - c | | 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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How to make HEAD detached in git

While trying to pull code from a different machine I got a detached HEAD message(with no branch connected) with red color in command window. I would like to analyze what I did to make it detached. ...
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How do I re-attach my head in pycharm?

Update: this seems to certainly be what I need. However when I follow the intstructions I am stuck as to how I can get my develop branch to point to my temp branch i.e. How do I execute the following ...
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Push to master commit made on a detached head

I wanted to redo changes from a previous commit. Maxims-MacBook-Air:hellodebug.com maximveksler$ git log commit 7f9dd753d39fd65b4272af713ef9c07a9f84f016 Author: Maxim Veksler <[email protected]&...
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Why am I getting a detached HEAD during gitlab/git merge-request/merge?

Firstly like to mention that I have tried a few things from prior questions but none of them fit my scenario. This does not somehow "register" as a merge in gitlab. I concluded this because when I ...
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How to reconcile detached head and origin/master? Already checked out old hash

Intro and search So I think I have made a grave mistake and I am concerned. I have parsed the forums for detached heads and I have come close to finding an answer, but the scenarios are too specific ...
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Git expects numerical timeout?

Working on a project in IntelliJ and pushing/pulling all material to github. Suddenly it stops working: I tried to fetch the code from github and get the error message: Fetch failed Error: option '...
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git HEAD detached from after reset --hard

I needed to do away with changes that I made to the working directory and go back and start from the last commit, so I did git reset --hard Now when I do git commit and git status I get this string ...
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Git: Should I keep a local up-to-date version of the master branch?

When using Git, I have always kept a local master branch. Before doing anything with that branch, I would always do a git pull --ff-only. I have recently been told that this is a terrible idea and ...
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On git, I checked out a previous commit and now can't find my later commits

I am very new to git usage and finding it very confusing to understand the branch/commit management. Anyway, the project I am working on is managed by git, and I am using gitk for it. Using gitk I was ...
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Git push help after checkout to commit

I have made checkout to my previous version in my repo. git checkout 9dc64fa Then I have made few changes and made few commits. Right now when I check status it says: # HEAD detached from 9dc64fa ...
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Can not do merge request on GitLab

After updating GitLab from 6.2 to 7.1. I can not do merge requests. It tells me that there isn't anything to merge (but ofcourse there are). System info: System information System: Current ...
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Detached HEAD in GitHub Git Client

I was about to check in some code to git hub using the UI client when I got some issue with a detached head. I am using the client, and I'm not familiar with the git shell. Before me, another ...
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can't push upstream using EGit

I use EGit in eclipse to pull and push. my config is: [remote "origin"] fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* push = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* local branch is master ...
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Git Checking out a Commit

When I switch branches in git I use the checkout command. There often arises a situation in which I want to simply go back and view the state of a project at a certain commit. I've been using the ...
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Can't push after local merge in gitlab

I am following the gitlab instructions to perform a local merge of a release branch into our develop branch: Check out, review, and merge locally Step 1. Fetch and check out the branch for ...
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AndroidStudio and uncommitted changes to BitBucket

I'm starting to use AndroidStudio and the BitBucked plugin. The all concept off Git is new to me and I've already stumbled in a problem. I've committed the changes using VCS -> Commit changes but ...
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initialized gitlab repo has remote detached head

I have initialized a new remote repository using gitlab website, and am trying to push an existing local repo into it via the provided instructions. $ git init $ git remote add origin [url] $ git add ...
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git pushing wrong repository to bitbucket

I just realized that for about a week now my git pushes are not actually going through to my repository on bitbucket. I'm using Mac and have GitX locally which is showing my commits from the past week ...
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How to get an earlier commit to display on openshift?

So I have my local repository, and I have an earlier commit which I want to revert my production site to. I can check it out and make it a branch and push it to openshift. The branch then shows in ...
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How to add changes to previous version and save it to branch master

if I have a > b > c versions. I want go back to b and add some changes So what I have now is a > b > b+newChanges on master branch, I hope that makes sense.
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