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I'm new to using Git and I'm not sure about the current situation.

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At the moment, it is in the above state. I've been able to "fetch" from a remote repository and open and run the latest state in my local VS Code, but does that mean that my local HEAD is at f52a6e9a at this point?

If so, I want to bring the local HEAD to the latest point of the main branch, but I don't know how.

2022/7/10/15: 06 Addendum git switch main After executing, the following status is displayed. I think you can now move to the main branch, but at this point the HEAD is at f52a6e9a, right?

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Then I executed "git checkout 17d73f6b63ca50e78d3a5a80339b6e8e037cc933". Then, it became the following state.

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This is what I want because HEAD is at the latest point of main branch.

As you may have noticed, this is something I'm doing experimentally to study git / Github, and I think I have a lot of basic things to learn.

森口万太郎
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Simply check your git status in a terminal (even from VSCode)

That will confirm where HEAD is.

A git switch main would be enough to bring your local repository to that local branch.
From there, a git pull would update it to origin/main if you want.

Avoid git checkout, which is confusing.
And do not checkout a commit, which leads to detached HEAD.

To go to 17d73f6 (the commit or origin/main):

git switch main
git pull
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  • Thank you for your reply. The result of executing the git status command – 森口万太郎 Jul 10 '22 at 05:52
  • On branch exp Your branch is up to date with 'origin/exp'. – 森口万太郎 Jul 10 '22 at 05:53
  • I believe VonC meant 'git checkout main' not switch – Gec Jul 10 '22 at 05:54
  • Does this mean "I'm in the exp branch at the moment"? In the remote repository, the exp branch has already been merged into the main branch and deleted. – 森口万太郎 Jul 10 '22 at 05:55
  • @Gec Why using the old obsolete checkout command? It is [`git switch`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-switch), to switch to a branch. Or `git restore`, to restore file. Not `git checkout` [which is confusing](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57066202/6309). – VonC Jul 10 '22 at 05:59
  • @森口万太郎 Yes, you are on exp. `git switch main` will make you go to your expected commit. – VonC Jul 10 '22 at 06:00
  • I added the situation after that to the question. I will investigate the necessary matters based on the answers I received. Thank you for staying with us so far. – 森口万太郎 Jul 10 '22 at 06:23
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    @森口万太郎 Forget `git checkout`. And a checkout of a commit will leave you in a [detached HEAD state](https://stackoverflow.com/a/3965714/6309). Which is not what you want. Do a `git switch main` again, then `git pull`: you will then be at 17d1. – VonC Jul 10 '22 at 06:24
  • @VonC yes. I stand corrected. Haven't updated git in a long while and I did try the switch before I posted, only to get "git: 'switch' is not a git command. See 'git --help'." Thanks! – Gec Jul 10 '22 at 09:52
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    @Gec: This means you have an old version of Git (pre-2.23). – torek Jul 11 '22 at 01:14