GIT Detached head issue on a branch

Question

I created a branch for my change and did a lots of commit over there. But then I wanted to rollback my latest commit. sO i did following 1. I checkout the previous commit with git checkout on my branch. 2. Then I did my changes to local directory and committed the changes.

Now I am not able to push it to the branch head. It is showing as detached head and can't see this commit in GIT UI.

Please note I want to push the changes to the head of my branch and not to the master. Any help?

Answer 1

# create a branch where you're currently pointing at
git branch temp

git checkout your_branch
git merge temp

and the commit you made out of your branch will be brought in, it should be a fast-forward (so without an unnecessary merge commit).

Answer 2

If I understood correctly, you checked out your previous commit without resetting your branch to it, therefore detaching HEAD . To bring back the branch to your current HEAD (and drop the commit it was pointing to), just use:

git checkout -B your_branch # Reset your_branch to HEAD and attach to it

If you had already pushed the dropped commit, you will need to --force the next push.