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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout -d: explicitly detach HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:11:45 +0200
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You cannot currently checkout the tip of an existing branch
> without moving to the branch.
> 
> This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a
> commit, with:
> 
>     $ git checkout -d master

What about

      $ git checkout master^0

trick to force detaching?

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Jakub Narebski
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