Re: user manual question

so a detached HEAD is just a HEAD that is not sitting on a tip ?

i.e. if I do $ git reset --hard HEAD^

...pointing HEAD to the previous committ

this is a detached HEAD

(I thought a detached HEAD was maybe a head somewhere on another branch not 
"reachable", i.e. a sibling, not a ancestor...
or something like that)


thanks guys

"Sitaram Chamarty" [off-list ref] wrote in message 
news:slrnglg90m.olt.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net...

On 2008-12-29, Zorba [off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi Sitaram!

Thanks for clearing that one up.

you're welcome; we've all done a bit of struggling I guess!

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Also, I did wonder about HEAD and head. One can move, the other doesn't!
(well, acually it does - head moves "forward", as the tip of the branch
grows)

Here's an extract from my notes/internal talks on this:

   === basic concepts
     * a branch is "an active line of development"
     * //master//: default branch in a project, by convention
     * //head//: tip of a branch
     * a repo can track many branches, but the working tree is associated 
with
       only one branch at a time
     * //HEAD//: tip of the branch associated with the working tree; this 
is
       where commits go
       ** except when it's "detached"

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Thanks for your other post/reply too - I will be getting back to you on 
that
one

Glad to be of help.  I don't consider myself a guru, and am
constantly waiting for one of the real gurus to strike me
down with a thunderbolt for saying something stupid :-)