This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a $ git checkout -d master Hum, excuse my ignorance, but can you explain what exactly could be a use case of this ? Xavier - 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