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POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : I cannot update my GitHub repo : Re: I cannot update my GitHub repo		Server Time 19 Apr 2024 15:59:05 EDT (-0400)

From: Jim Henderson
Date: 17 Feb 2022 10:59:03
Message: <pan$e8446$50072bbb$7ed71ea2$ae813139@nospam.com>

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:37:53 -0500, Dick Balaska wrote:

> On 2/15/2022 5:50 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> ricky@localhost:~/Documents/POV-Ray/oc_devl/AndroidRobot> git pull You
> are not currently on a branch.
> 
> ricky@localhost:~/Documents/POV-Ray/oc_devl/AndroidRobot> git status
> HEAD detached from 638e732
> 
> --
> These two are not good.
> 
> I have run into this before and honestly what I do, and the easiest way
> out is to git clone a new workspace. Then copy your old/broken files
> (not the .git directory!) over to the new workspace.

Yeah, I had an issue similar to this a few days ago, and ended up doing 
the same thing.  Even stashing the changes I had made didn't work, along 
with a hard reset to a known good commit.



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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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