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loulou
loulou

Reputation: 89

Git checkout tag in Eclipse IDE

I wanted to verify how to checkout a tag through Eclipse. So far, I cloned a github repository and I created a new branch. I want to now checkout a specific tag. I went to "Team" -> "Switch to" -> "Other" and selected the specific tag. However, I get an Eclipse pop warning box stating "You are in 'detached HEAD' state. This means that you don't have a local branch checked out...". Is this something that I need to worry about or is there a correct this? I thought by creating a new branch that this would have worked.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2674

Answers (1)

faisal
faisal

Reputation: 1339

it is expected behavior, tags are not mutable. If you need to change you have to create a branch from the tag.

git checkout -b branch_name tag_name

Or in eclipse, do what you just did and create a new branch.

Upvotes: 2

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