> The commit the message shows is meant to indicate where your unnamed > branch diverged at named branches. Immediately after moving to the > unnamed branch by detaching the HEAD, the message says "at"; the > HEAD is pointing directly at the tip of the then-current branch and > that is where the tip of the unnamed branch is. You can tell from > that message that you will not lose any commit if you were to check > out a named branch from that state. > > After you make a commit on the unnamed branch, you have something to > lose if you were to check out a named branch from that state, as the > detached HEAD is the _only_ thing these new commits you built on top > of the fork point. Upon seeing "HEAD detached from 9745ede235", you > could do "git log 9745ede235.." and see what you would end up losing > if you were to switch to another branch without saving them first to > a named branch. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I was for some reason under the impression that "git status" would show the current HEAD, rather than where it was detached. Why I thought that, I don't know.
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