From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32D4C43331 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938E320578 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="RF7PsFTQ" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730055AbgC3QbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:31:09 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:62015 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730042AbgC3QbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:31:09 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C8F43181; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:31:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=G3Ezd/cv7JwxYcGEly9ik64Xq2o=; b=RF7PsF TQW/RjVKS7plc9I3fY0aNR5lJMP5ZaiOoGWZW31ZOiz6QQ25r+Q+c0KbIqOqFQjo ehLT6/Kv+UenWjWuv6g4QAsr0gyBAU02NSnYWjrxfUiEgMoqRU1NY6recf0x1yN0 Wx/v/4ImfEn115P7mzREzwKvNILi0F4RnnoOU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=yeR4L43+GZnwV9S+1BYZ1e4M12Md7GhD Qpes9eKi7TIp3Xq29w+xkzOgdy3QVDQiLM4MkkHieSYI/UU/4dJoe9TDtkzkTgpb n1n58wgR9n4VwuThWF1OjIw8ZetCcYywjYR2Z3yCIeilN+oVJpFh18gZr8+GW798 kuMwnKb/toM= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB1F43180; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:31:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 500C24317E; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:31:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Git Mailing list Subject: Re: why "Not currently on any branch" but no "HEAD detached"? References: Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:31:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:16:50 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DABFBD6E-72A3-11EA-B014-D1361DBA3BAF-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > probably a silly question (and probably related to using an old > version of git), but on a ubuntu 16.04.6 dev system, i used google's > "repo" tool to check out a bunch of git repos, and when i pop into > those git repos and run "git status", i see: > > # Not currently on any branch > nothing to commit, working tree clean > > i'm used to seeing "HEAD detached at " ... is the above > just an older style of the same message, given that this system uses > git 2.9.2? or is there something else going on here? b397ea48 (status: show more info than "currently not on any branch", 2013-03-13) is the culprit. We used to just say the HEAD was detached, but for the past 7 years or so, when we know the last branch we were on before detaching, we report the name of the branch.