On 6/18/12 2:22 PM, Robin Burchell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Stephen Chu <step...@ju-ju.com> wrote:
>> When I clone Qt 5 from gitorious, sub-modules like qtbase are not in any
>> branch:
>>
>> stephen-chus-mac-pro:qtbase stephenchu$ git branch
>> * (no branch)
>>    master
>>
>> Where are these non-branch files on gitorious? How do they get there?
>
> You'll get this when you check out a given sha directly as opposed to
> a branch like 'master'. This is done because qt5.git contains the most
> recent shas of all modules known to be good (and work together). This
> is called a "detached head" in git terminology.
>

A-Ha! I knew it's some black magic. :) Thanks for the explanation. So 
that's what those sha for.

Now is there a way to see commits going into those detached heads?
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