From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [BUG?] HEAD detached at HEAD Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:59:15 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 18 18:59:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcz0Q-0000FE-It for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:59:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754628AbbIRQ7W (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:59:22 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:38352 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752200AbbIRQ7V (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:59:21 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8IGxDrO020220 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:59:13 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8IGxFTT016809; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:59:15 +0200 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:59:13 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: t8IGxDrO020220 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1443200356.3658@FFx3+mO+FW1JeYCMv7DxKw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I did a "git checkout --detached", and now I get: $ git status HEAD detached at HEAD nothing to commit, working directory clean $ git branch * (HEAD detached at HEAD) master The "HEAD detached at HEAD" is not very helpful. I thought there was an abbreved sha1 here before, but I'm getting the same with latest Git in master and Git 2.0, so it doesn't seem to be new. I'm getting it even if there's a tag and/or a branch pointing to the same commit. Any idea what's going on? -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/