How to name a (no branch)-branch on git

Question

It happened somehow that I left the master branch and ended up on the no branch branch. How can I give this branch a meaningful name?

In detail: Calling git branch shows

* (no branch)
  master

and what I want (without changing any file) is to have e.g.

* extraBranchIEndedUpWith
  master

git status is clean.

Christoffer Hammarström · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-11 07:57:13Z

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"no branch" is not a branch, as the name says. It means you have checked out a revision that isn't the tip of a branch.

To create a branch of it, simply

git checkout -b extraBranchIEndedUpWith

Just like you would create any other branch from your current revision.

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 7:57

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