Where am I? * (no branch)

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Published on 2010-04-30T09:50:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 9:57 UTC
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I've been getting familiar with creating, merging and deleting branches. I like to know where I am so I don't commit work into the wrong branch. I use git branch -a to see which branches I have. I think the asterix * shows which branch I'm currently on. What does it mean when I get:



* (no branch)
master
origin/HEAD

Because when I $git checkout mybranch I expect to see



* mybranch
master
origin/HEAD

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