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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:44:10 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> What's the state before the "git checkout HEAD~2"?

It is HEAD@{1}.

> I know I often find my git.git repos on "* (no branch)", and I don't 
> remember if I checked that out as origin/master or origin/next.

Just have a look at the output of "git reflog".  Pretty unambiguous IMHO.


Nicolas