Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.0-rc4-372-g26cfc
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@@ -395,21 +395,12 @@ What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g. <tt>git checkout master</tt>), and a later <tt>git prune</tt> or <tt>git gc</tt> would -garbage-collect them.</p> -<p>The command would refuse to switch back to make sure that you do -not discard your temporary state by mistake when your detached -HEAD is not pointed at by any existing ref. If you did want to -save your state (e.g. "I was interested in the fifth commit from -the top of <em>master</em> branch", or "I made two commits to fix minor -bugs while on a detached HEAD" — and if you do not want to lose -these facts), you can create a new branch and switch to it with -<tt>git checkout -b newbranch</tt> so that you can keep building on -that state, or tag it first so that you can come back to it -later and switch to the branch you wanted to switch to with <tt>git -tag that_state; git checkout master</tt>. On the other hand, if you -did want to discard the temporary state, you can give <tt>-f</tt> -option (e.g. <tt>git checkout -f master</tt>) to override this -behaviour.</p> +garbage-collect them. If you did this by mistake, you can ask +the reflog for HEAD where you were, e.g.</p> +<div class="listingblock"> +<div class="content"> +<pre><tt>$ git log -g -2 HEAD</tt></pre> +</div></div> </div> <h2>EXAMPLES</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> @@ -519,7 +510,7 @@ </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 02-Feb-2007 07:34:52 UTC +Last updated 13-Feb-2007 23:48:05 UTC </div> </div> </body>
