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From:	Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To:	Tim <timothyjwashington@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Re: "Not currently on any branch"
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0000, Tim wrote:
> I have some code in a git repo that is "Not currently on any branch". Now,
> there's the master branch and another branch 'ui-integration' that I'm
> using in this project. I don't know how the project got into this headless
> state, but I need to be using the 'ui-integration' branch. 

It can happen either by explicitly detaching HEAD using "git checkout
<commit>", or if you used rebase and it is still in progress.

Clemens