Why did git set us on (no branch)?

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Published on 2010-03-23T08:35:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 9:03 UTC
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This morning we pull from our repo, and git put us on (no branch).

I don't understand this, why did this happen? And how get out of it without losing our changes?

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