On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > probably a silly question (and probably related to using an old > > version of git), but on a ubuntu 16.04.6 dev system, i used google's > > "repo" tool to check out a bunch of git repos, and when i pop into > > those git repos and run "git status", i see: > > > > # Not currently on any branch > > nothing to commit, working tree clean > > > > i'm used to seeing "HEAD detached at <something>" ... is the above > > just an older style of the same message, given that this system uses > > git 2.9.2? or is there something else going on here? > > b397ea48 (status: show more info than "currently not on any branch", > 2013-03-13) is the culprit. We used to just say the HEAD was > detached, but for the past 7 years or so, when we know the last > branch we were on before detaching, we report the name of the > branch. got it, thanks. rday
