Rescuing files and commits from "no branch" in git

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Published on 2010-03-04T16:51:19Z Indexed on 2010/12/21 20:56 UTC
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I started working on some files I had in a git submodule under another project. However, since it was a git submodule it never checked out "master" and instead just checked out the head and placed all the files in the folder in "no branch".

Now that I've made some changes by accident to these files I just realized that I was working in a "no branch", submodule of my project.

How do I get those files into a branch (like master) so I can rescue them?

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