Hi, I was asked to post this issue to the list, I've just had git tell me it can't detach HEAD which left me scratching mine as to the cause and fix. Turns out if I have local untracked files that the remote branch also has then this error will trigger. I have included my shell backlog (client data removed). In this example the site_map folder was present on master and I had a local, untracked copy. git can obviosly detect this issue and stop my local copy getting in a bad state, but an error message such as "sites/all/modules/site_map/ is present in HEAD but is untracked locally, unable to apply changes" (or something to point the finger) would be much appreciated. ben@carbon:redacted/$ git pull --rebase remote: Counting objects: 91, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (72/72), done. remote: Total 74 (delta 27), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (74/74), done. >From git+ssh://redacted fb1a4c9..bf06bbd master -> origin/master First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Fast-forwarded master to bf06bbd9e50a2732164fba9e60e65606ab1267ab. ben@carbon:redacted/$ pwd /home/ben/redacted ben@carbon:redacted/$ git pull --rebase First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... could not detach HEAD ben@carbon:redacted/$ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # sites/all/modules/jquery.ui-1.6.zip # sites/all/modules/jquery_ui-6.x-1.3.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/jquery_ui/ # sites/all/modules/modalframe-6.x-1.3.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/modalframe/ # sites/all/modules/nodereference_explorer-6.x-1.1-beta6.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/nodereference_explorer/ # sites/all/modules/noderelationships-6.x-1.1.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/noderelationships/ # sites/all/modules/site_map-6.x-1.1.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/site_map/ nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) ben@carbon:redacted/$ rm -rf sites/all/modules/site_map/ ben@carbon:redacted/$ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # sites/all/modules/jquery.ui-1.6.zip # sites/all/modules/jquery_ui-6.x-1.3.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/jquery_ui/ # sites/all/modules/modalframe-6.x-1.3.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/modalframe/ # sites/all/modules/nodereference_explorer-6.x-1.1-beta6.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/nodereference_explorer/ # sites/all/modules/noderelationships-6.x-1.1.tar.gz # sites/all/modules/noderelationships/ # sites/all/modules/site_map-6.x-1.1.tar.gz nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) ben@carbon:redacted/$ git pull --rebase First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Fast-forwarded master to 527afccc7565929baf7890b42b1a34174014fee7. Thanks for your time (and git) Ben -- 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