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user13802611
user13802611

Reputation:

What does the Git error "You are not currently on a branch" mean?

I am new to Git and I think I don't know what I am doing.

I was editing a bunch of files including new ones. Since there were lots of changes, I wanted to commit and push them before losing my work.

So I used:

git add .
git commit -m "Blablabla"

With the following answer:

[detached HEAD b5c9786] Blablabla
 29 files changed, 794 insertions(+), 265 deletions(-)

Then:

git push

With the answer

fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
To push the history leading to the current (detached HEAD)
state now, use

    git push origin HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>

I realized that I forgot to go back to the feature branch last time I did a pull, so I switched to the feature branch.

git branch feature

Which obviously loaded the state when it was after last push.

Before I panic and do something stupid, my last commit should be somewhere locally in the .git folder right?

I have the following files:

COMMIT_EDITMSG
HEAD
config
hooks
info
objects
refs
FETCH_HEAD
ORIG_HEAD
description
index
logs
packed-refs

COMMIT_EDITMSG and HEAD have timestamp around my last commit.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2934

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1326982

I already left the detached branch and I don't know how to get back to that detached branch

That is where git reflog comes in.

If you had committed before leaving the detached HEAD, you will find your commit listed in the reflog.
You can then git cherry-pick it, and apply it on your current branch.

Upvotes: 4

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