fatal: You are not currently on a branch.git push master HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>

Question

I am facing git issue following below...

fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
To push the history leading to the current (detached HEAD)
state now, use

git push master HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>

What shall I do?

Answer 1

If you are sure that you on the correct commit locally , then you can just do:

git push origin HEAD:master --force

And then, importantly, change your pointer from the detached head to the current head by:

git branch --force master HEAD
git checkout master

This assumes that you have done the following steps if you wanted to revert to a previous commit which is named "target commit" in the following (as "previous commit" is ambiguous, it could be any previous commit):

git reset --hard <target commit>

You have checked out the code of that commit by:

git checkout <target commit>

If that gives you:

Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to
any of your branches:

<unknown commit> revert to <target commit>

THEN do the git reset command above again!

IF git status says:

HEAD detached at <target commit>
nothing to commit, working tree clean

THEN you are ready to push with the command above:

git push origin HEAD:master --force