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

Question

EGit strikes again. I made the mistake of trying to switch to a different branch in EGit and it somehow messed up and checked out no branch. I then made a commit to this non-branch, and then when I realized I wasn't tracking the right branch, I ran the following:

$ git checkout issue2 Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches:      bada553d My commit message  If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this may be a good time to do so with:      git branch new_branch_name ....  Branch issue2 set up to track remote branch issue2 from origin. Switched to a new branch issue2.  

Now that I've botched things, how do I associate that commit with my current branch? I'm not interested in creating a brand new branch, I just want to pull that commit into my branch, issue2.

Answer 1

you can git cherry-pick bada553d if it's just the one commit.

You can also reference anywhere you've been by using the reflog:

git reflog 

then use one of those commits:

git checkout -b temp HEAD@{3} 

to checkout and make a branch temp from where your current commit was 3 "times" ago. It's a bread crumb of where you used to be.