Zorba, 29.12.2008: > so a detached HEAD is just a HEAD that is not sitting on a tip ? You can also get a detached HEAD with "git checkout origin/master", although your HEAD points to a tip. But it's a remote tip and since you can't work on remote branches, you now are on a detached HEAD (no branch). > i.e. if I do $ git reset --hard HEAD^ > > ...pointing HEAD to the previous committ > > this is a detached HEAD No, this isn't. "git reset <commit>" modifies your current head (local branch), now HEAD still points to the tip, but the tip is one commit older. A detached HEAD you can get with "git checkout HEAD^". -- 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
