Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Unless there is some last minute showstopper, the final will be >> cut on Wednesday. Should I give it a catchy codename? ;-) > Documentation/git-checkout.txt still needs an update about reflogs > with detached HEAD (the paragraph starting with "The command would > refuse [..]"). Thanks. I'd do the following. --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 55c9289..e4ffde4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -103,22 +103,12 @@ by any branch (which is natural --- you are not on any branch). What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g. `git checkout master`), and a later `git prune` or `git gc` would -garbage-collect them. - -The command would refuse to switch back to make sure that you do -not discard your temporary state by mistake when your detached -HEAD is not pointed at by any existing ref. If you did want to -save your state (e.g. "I was interested in the fifth commit from -the top of 'master' branch", or "I made two commits to fix minor -bugs while on a detached HEAD" -- and if you do not want to lose -these facts), you can create a new branch and switch to it with -`git checkout -b newbranch` so that you can keep building on -that state, or tag it first so that you can come back to it -later and switch to the branch you wanted to switch to with `git -tag that_state; git checkout master`. On the other hand, if you -did want to discard the temporary state, you can give `-f` -option (e.g. `git checkout -f master`) to override this -behaviour. +garbage-collect them. If you did this by mistake, you can ask +the reflog for HEAD where you were, e.g. + +------------ +$ git log -g -2 HEAD +------------ EXAMPLES - 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