Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches

Question

EGit strikes again. I made the mistake of trying to switch to a different branch in EGit and it somehow messed up and checked out no branch. I then made a commit to this non-branch, and then when I realized I wasn't tracking the right branch, I ran the following:

$ git checkout issue2
Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches:

    bada553d My commit message

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 ....

Branch issue2 set up to track remote branch issue2 from origin.
Switched to a new branch issue2.

Now that I've botched things, how do I associate that commit with my current branch? I'm not interested in creating a brand new branch, I just want to pull that commit into my branch, issue2.

Possible duplicate of [What happens to git commits created in a detached HEAD state?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9984223/what-happens-to-git-commits-created-in-a-detached-head-state) — Michael Freidgeim, Apr 01 '16 at 00:42
@JohnyTex when people like me use git in weird ways. Fortunately StackOverflow saves my bacon again! — Perposterer, Jul 21 '22 at 23:25

score 137 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '13 at 19:05

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you can git cherry-pick bada553d if it's just the one commit.

You can also reference anywhere you've been by using the reflog:

git reflog

then use one of those commits:

git checkout -b temp HEAD@{3}

to checkout and make a branch temp from where your current commit was 3 "times" ago. It's a bread crumb of where you used to be.

answered Jan 16 '13 at 19:05

Adam Dymitruk

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How to delete commit like this which is not required? – Shubham Chadokar Dec 17 '19 at 09:16
If you don't give it a name, like a branch or tag, it'll eventually be deleted by git's garbage collector. – Jim Oct 07 '20 at 18:27
For multiple commits you can [cherry pick](https://www.tollmanz.com/git-cherry-pick-range/) [a](/a/1994491) range using `git cherry-pick ebe6942^..905e279` – cachius May 23 '23 at 08:38

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '22 at 20:40

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If you just want to associate that commit with your current branch, you can simply do this

Run this command to create a new branch with that commit

git branch temp {commit's SHA}
Then simply merge this commit with your current branch

git merge temp
Now just delete the temporary new branch we created

git branch -d temp

answered Feb 08 '22 at 20:40

Anmol Ahuja

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Perfect, thanks so much. IMO this is more straightforward than the accepted answer. – pretzlstyle May 14 '22 at 20:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '21 at 19:40

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Also you can just apply tag to your commit after using git reflog when you'll know commit's hash:

 Git tag <tag's_name>  <commit's_hash>/HEAD@{<commit's_num>}

answered Sep 02 '21 at 19:40

Dmitriy Ogureckiy

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Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches

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