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🔍 Detached HEADIntermediate0/4

📖 Concepts

Detached HEADWhen HEAD points directly to a commit instead of a branch. You're not on any branch — new commits won't advance a branch reference.

How to get thereChecking out a specific commit (git checkout <hash>), a tag (git checkout v1.0), or a remote-tracking branch (git checkout origin/main) all put you in detached HEAD.

RecoveringCreate a branch from the current position with git checkout -b <name> to save any work. Then switch back to a normal branch with git checkout main.

View the commit history

Run git log --oneline. There are 4 commits. We'll check out an older commit to see what detached HEAD looks like.

● View the commit history

○ Check out an older commit to enter detached HEAD

○ Create a branch to save your position

○ Switch back to main

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📘 Starting tutorial: Detached HEAD

Understand detached HEAD state, how you get there, and how to recover

Step 1: View the commit history