How to resolve a detached head in Git

Abu Eesa
FusionQA
Published in
Apr 5, 2016

If you have ever been in a “detached head” state using Git, you might be wondering how did I get here and how do I fix this?

If you are in a ‘detached head’ state, that basically means you are no longer on any branch. You probably checked out a specific commit. To fix this problem, all you have to do is checkout the branch you were previously on:

git checkout master

Tags: detached head, Git, software development

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