Re: Proper git settings to stay with master?

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>]

Am 23.12.2016 um 20:49 schrieb John Hendy:
> Sure... I get that that I *can* do that. I just wondered why I
> *needed* to do that.

When you are in a "detached HEAD" situation, you will always have to 
tell git explicitly to switch to some other commit (most likely a 
branch).  Git pull works with branch heads, but you've not checked out 
any, so it won't do anything and can't, since it will potentially lose 
data if it tried.

> This makes sense. I don't know why this never happened before, but
> checking out a specific commit makes sense.

Checking out a specific commit not at the branch head, to be precise.

 > Perhaps I was bisecting
> something in the past and checking out various commits? Once you check
> out *something*, do you always have to re-checkout something else to
> undo this effect (and make it like the default)? As in if I check out
> a commit and then =git pull=, it won't go back to master?

Git status tells you where you've currently checked out.


-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)