<div dir="ltr">you need to make a branch<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"> git checkout -b Eliot "that will make a branch at the current HEAD/commit point with any of your pending </span>changing" <br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">stage & commit any work to the Eliot branch </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">checkout Cog</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>merge <span style="font-size:13px">Eliot "To merge any changes into Cog"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">push Cog back to github. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Eliot Miranda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" target="_blank">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br><div dir="ltr">I'm stuck. Don't know how I detached from the master. I'm seeing this:<div><br></div><div><div>You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental</div><div>changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this</div><div>state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may</div><div>do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:</div><div><br></div><div> git checkout -b <new-branch-name></div><div><br></div><div>HEAD is now at ed4a499... CogVM source as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.1958</div><div><br></div><div>I want to make this the new master, and then add a commit. I'm stuck. Git mavens, help please.</div><div><br></div><div class="m_2670092162454687574gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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