I think I have good understanding how submodules work. But still don't get why those commits are "not connected to any branches". Why I am getting this warning? What I'm doing wrong? IMHO it should just do checkout master without warning.
On Friday, August 17, 2012 4:52:43 PM UTC+2, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:35:24 -0700 (PDT) > Fred <fredga...@googlemail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > I've cloned a fresh repo with submodules and then cd library/module > > && git checkout master > > > > it gives me a warning and I don't understand why and how to avoid it? > > > > Warning: you are leaving 30 commits behind, not connected to > > any of your branches: > > > > 2553655 Merge branch 'master' into prod > > 6b07300 Fix build > > ... and 28 more. > > > > If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this may be a good > > time to do so with: > > > > git branch new_branch_name 654646464 > > > > Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. > > Switched to a new branch 'master' > > > > > > What is going wrong here? How did we managed to have commits not > > connected to any of branches? > > Did you read [1]? I'm not familiar with submodules, but the cited text > hints that the state of each sumbodule is checked out using that > specific commit's SHA-1 name, and so each submodule normally is in the > "detached HEAD" state. Hence, if the "master" branch of that particular > sumbodule references a commit which is not equal to that specific > commit checked out in the submodule, when you check out that "master" > branch, you do really move that submodule's HEAD pointer and get that > warning. > > I think reading through the whole chapter on submodules is a worthwile > thing. > > 1. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules#Issues-with-Submodules > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/IfdV2KOEU-AJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
