{"id":3852,"date":"2020-07-08T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2020-07-08T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:51:10","slug":"fixing-git-detached-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/fixing-git-detached-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Git Detached Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any checkout that is not the name of one of your branches will get you a detached HEAD. <\/p>\n

The above scenario could be reproduced as below<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. lists the remote branches\n
    \r\ngit branch -r\r\n    origin\/Feature\/f1234\r\n    origin\/master\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. I want to checkout one locally, so I cut paste:\n
    \r\ngit checkout origin\/Feature\/f1234\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Detached HEAD state\n
    \r\nYou are in 'detached HEAD' state. [...])\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Solution #1:<\/strong>
    \nDo not include origin\/ at the front of my branch spec when checking it out:<\/p>\n
    \r\ngit checkout Feature\/f1234\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Solution #2:<\/strong>
    \nAdd -b parameter which creates a local branch from the remote<\/p>\n
    \r\ngit checkout -b origin\/Feature\/f1234\r\ngit checkout -b Feature\/f1234  #it will fall back to origin automatically\r\n<\/pre>\n
    But, you have started making changes in the detached branch and you encounter that later. In such case commits will work but changes
    \nwon’t be reflected in branch in remote since it is detached. To address such an issue<\/p>\n
      \n
    1. commit changes in detached local branch<\/li>\n
    2. create a new branch<\/li>\n
    3. checkout the branch you are already working so the connection with remote would be again established <\/li>\n
    4. Now the new branch created in local contains your changes and checkout will fetch the original remote branch without changes <\/li>\n
    5. Do git merge between two and push the code to remote now<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \r\ngit commit -m \".....\"\r\ngit branch my-temporary-work\r\ngit checkout master\r\ngit merge my-temporary-work\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Any checkout that is not the name of one of your branches will get you a detached HEAD. The above scenario could be reproduced as below lists the remote branches git branch -r origin\/Feature\/f1234 origin\/master I want to checkout one locally, so I cut paste: git checkout origin\/Feature\/f1234 Detached HEAD state You are in ‘detached… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-git"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}