You see the Git documentation saying things like
The branch must be fully merged in HEAD.
But what is Git HEAD exactly?
You see the Git documentation saying things like The branch must be fully merged
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You see the Git documentation saying things like
The branch must be fully merged in HEAD.
But what is Git HEAD exactly?
You can think of the HEAD as the “current branch”. When you switch branches with
git checkout, the HEAD revision changes to point to the tip of the new branch.You can see what HEAD points to by doing:
In my case, the output is:
It is possible for HEAD to refer to a specific revision that is not associated with a branch name. This situation is called a detached HEAD.