From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Master branch not updating Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: <201003221747.50504.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <295c22191003220943o2ef330ddk58a8180411ddbb2b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: To: Jacopo Pecci X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 22 17:48:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtknH-0005kl-8u for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:47:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755198Ab0CVQrx convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:47:53 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.238]:38142 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532Ab0CVQrx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:47:53 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.238) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:47:52 +0100 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:47:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <295c22191003220943o2ef330ddk58a8180411ddbb2b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Nevertheles= s > I could see a full list of all my new commits with the proper comment= s > in the main window. It looked like I was not on any branch (if this > is possible) > Then I have tried =E2=80=9Ccheckout master branch=E2=80=9D, suddenly = all the commits > in between the one labelled [master] and the latest one vanished. I > have not been able to get back. >=20 > 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 --=20 Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch