On 01/29/2010 03:20 PM, Ron1 wrote:
[ron@mickey]$ git checkout master Already on 'master' [ron@mickey]$ git checkout master^ Note: moving to 'master^' which isn't a local branch If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b<new_branch_name> HEAD is now at 7be05e0... test [ron@mickey]$ git branch * (no branch) master [ron@mickey]$ Huh?!? This is a test repository which has never been pulled from nor pushed to anywhere. So how is it possible that I have a non-local branch? Thanks, rg
I believe what you're seeing is known as a detached head (see <http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-checkout.html> though I could be wrong about this.)
I think you may have intended to do git checkout HEAD^ or something similar? basically what you did was (I think) checkout (or attempt to checkout) the parent commit on master.
this may offer some additional food for thought: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html#_exploring_history>
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