Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes: > Looks like 'git pull' might not work for a detached head. Is there an > easy way to also have 'git pull' work? That's why I wrote 'git fetch origin'. That suggestion was for a script, not for a user. You can use a fully-qualified pull from a detached head, but it doesn't have an implicit upstream.