What to do with commit made in a detached head

Question

Using git I made something like this

git clone
git checkout {a rev number tree rev before} (here I started to be in a detached head state)
//hacking
git comm         


        

Answer 1

You could do something like this.

# Create temporary branch for your detached head
git branch tmp

# Go to master
git checkout master

# Merge in commits from previously detached head
git merge tmp

# Delete temporary branch
git branch -d tmp

Even simpler would be

git checkout master
git merge HEAD@{1}

but this has the slight danger that if you do make a mistake it can be a little harder to recover the commits made on the detached head.