Git branch named origin/HEAD -> origin/master

Question

I\'m fairly new to Git, and still getting the hang of it. I just recently started working with branches and am running into some questions.

I have two development system

Answer 1

As far as I know, HEAD is not a branch, but rather a pointer to a node of the history tree (i.e. a commit). The files which are residing in you particular working copy have the state described by HEAD.

Usually HEAD points to the most recent commit in a branch, so you have the most recent files in the working copy. Using git reset HEAD^ you can shift the pointer to previous commit (i.e. undoing the last commit in your local copy).

Now, every git repo has a HEAD, check this with git show HEAD. Accordingly, origin/HEAD is HEAD of your origin remote.

Now, I've found a good question describing HEAD: What is HEAD in Git?