Git rebase –onto and the in detached HEAD

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Sometimes I branch off of the wrong branch. So I need to rebase my branch onto the correct branch.

> git checkout myCurrentBranch
> git rebase -i --onto <targetBranch> <fromCommit> <toCommit>

Meaning: “git rebase myCurrentBranch onto targetBranch, moving moving all commits since myCurrentBranch diverged from fromCommit until toCommit to targetBranch.”

More information: More-interesting-rebases

This often times results in a detached head….

This stackoverflow entry might have some help: How can I reconcile detached HEAD with master/origin?

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