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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Jacopo Pecci <jacopo.pecci@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Master branch not updating
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:47:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003221747.50504.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <295c22191003220943o2ef330ddk58a8180411ddbb2b@mail.gmail.com>

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

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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22 16:43 Master branch not updating Jacopo Pecci
2010-03-22 16:47 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-03-22 17:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-23  7:34   ` Jacopo Pecci

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