[Interest] What happened to 5.5.1 branch?

Jason H jhihn at gmx.com
Sat Feb 6 00:13:19 CET 2016



> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 at 5:59 PM
> From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] What happened to 5.5.1 branch?
>
> Answering the subject: 5.5.1 is released, so it no longer needs a branch.
> 
> On sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2016 23:32:09 PST Jason H wrote:
> > Git issues:
> > 1. I checked out the 5.5.1, and created a branch called
> > osx_recording_params. SourceTree shows me the [osx_recording_params] in the
> > "SourceTree" window. 
> 
> Mistake. You should have checked out the 5.5 branch.
> 
> > 2. Things were fine until 5.6 branch happened.  Now,
> > the list of pre-5.6 branches is gone. $ git branch
> > * (HEAD detached from c595fc7) # <- this was the 5.5.1 commit of
> > qtmultimedia that I checked out. 5.6
> 
> You were detached already. It just happened that the remote branch that you 
> happened to be detached from is now gone.



Not sure why it got deleted. They are free. And there are others. Now I'm always getting:
'git log' failed with code 128:'fatal: bad revision '(HEAD detached from c595fc7)'
with all my git actions.



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