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Mastering git, Part 13, Detached HEAD in Git

Detached HEAD Before everything, let’s have a look at some stuff. Everything in Git is about commits, and many git commands accept commits as a parameter, i.e.

We have to understand how to reference commits. Hash The SHA-1 hash of a commit is the most straightforward method to refer to it. In the

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Mastering git, Part 4, git merge, git diff with GUI tools, view git history (commit log), blame

Diff Before following this post, make sure you have already set up everything from my other post regarding the configuration of the git environment. Diff command will allow you to compare two different commits, let’s set up a repository:

Now in the second repository, we make some changes:

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Mastering git, Part 3 (Undo local changes, git revert, git reset, git amend and git clean)

1. Checkout The git checkout  moves the HEAD ref pointer to a specified commit. To demonstrate this, consider the following example:

Now you can change the HEAD with:

or

you can find all commits again by:

For instance:

1.2 Detached HEAD Any checkout of a commit that is not …

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