Re:A List Apart: Get started with Git
by eru on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:06PM
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Just don't do a GC, while you have dangling commits.
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You're fine as long as the detached head is newer than two weeks old. (And you might be fine past that point. While the branch is "unnamed" it does have a ref in the reflog pointing at it.)