Re: Master branch not updating

Jacopo Pecci wrote:

Hi,
I have a simple local project, with only the master branch. After few
commits with Git Extensions, I have realized the label [master] was
stuck, it was not pointing at the latest commit any more. Nevertheless
I could see a full list of all my new commits with the proper comments
in the main window.  It looked like I was not on any branch (if this
is possible)
Then I have tried “checkout master branch”, suddenly all the commits
in between the one labelled [master] and the latest one vanished. I
have not been able to get back.

I am terribly afraid I have lost 4 day work. Do you have any
suggestion? How is it possible that something which I have committed
is not retrievable anymore.

Read this very nice article by Sitaram Chamarty:

http://sitaramc.github.com/concepts/detached-head.html

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch