Oct 19, 2010 · Another way you can enter detached head state is if you're in the middle of an interactive rebase, and you want to edit one of the commits. When Git drops you at the commit to edit, you'll be …

Feb 9, 2021 · When the detached HEAD points at the commit from which it was first checked out, git status says detached at <the_base_commit>. If then you make new commits or use git reset to move …

Oct 31, 2024 · If one would checkout a branch: git checkout 760ac7e from e.g. b9ac70b, how can one go back to the last known head b9ac70b without knowing its SHA1?

How to exit (“fix”) detached HEAD state when you already changed something in this mode and, optionally, want to save your changes: Commit changes you want to keep. If you want to take over …

Sep 26, 2013 · A “detached HEAD” message in git just means that HEAD (the part of git that tracks what your current working directory should match) is pointing directly to a commit rather than a branch.

Dec 11, 2017 · 53 -i (interactive) is about whether to keep stdin open (some programs, like bash, use stdin and other programs don't). -d (detached) is about whether the docker run command waits for …

But I just pushed to the remote repository, and what's there is different-- a couple of the commits I'd killed in the rebase got pushed, and the new ones committed locally aren't there. I think …

Nov 18, 2019 · 51 While all the answers here sort of answer the original question (how to push from a detached head without affecting other branches) all suggest creating a new branch. Here's how to …

Your detached head should be in there. Once you find it, do git checkout -b my-new-branch abc123 or git branch my-new-branch abc123 (where abc123 is the SHA-1 of the detached HEAD) to create a …

Dec 30, 2015 · Learn how to move HEAD back to a previous location in Git and undo commits with this Stack Overflow guide.