Why did my Git repo enter a detached HEAD state?

Question

I ended up with a detached head today, the same problem as described in: git push says everything up-to-date even though I have local changes

As far as I know I didn

Answer 1

try

git reflog 

this gives you a history of how your HEAD and branch pointers where moved in the past.

e.g. :

88ea06b HEAD@{0}: checkout: moving from DEVELOPMENT to remotes/origin/SomeNiceFeature e47bf80 HEAD@{1}: pull origin DEVELOPMENT: Fast-forward

the top of this list is one reasone one might encounter a DETACHED HEAD state ... checking out a remote tracking branch.