From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:31:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8sjhajp2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2003301211330.14880@localhost.localdomain> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 (EDT)")
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-30 16:16 why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? Robert P. J. Day
2020-03-30 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-03-30 16:39 ` Robert P. J. Day
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