Mark Levedahl wrote: > In this vein, I suggest that > $ git checkout --detach master > as a way to get a detached HEAD on branch master is more understandable than > $ git checkout refs/heads/master To detach, use $ git checkout master^0 -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html