Git checkout HEAD- switching back to HEAD

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I've been doing my project while at some point I discovered that one thing stopped working. I needed to look up the state of my code when it was working correctly, so I've decided to use git checkout (because I wanted to check-something-out). And so I've done

git checkout SHA

a couple of times while going back to the point from which I can't go to HEAD, the output is the following:

git checkout SHA-HEAD
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
    [list of files]
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

I am pretty much sure I have NOT changed anything. The command

git checkout master

gives the same output.

Is there a way to go back to HEAD?

What is the safe way of "jumping over" history commits?

Faith Davidson · Accepted Answer

To solve git return to head, you could stash the changes and then come back to master branch using:

git add .
git stash
git checkout master

if you need to go to a specific commit then use:

        git checkout

If you have uncommitted changes here then,

# checkout a new branch, add, commit, push
 git checkout -b 
 git add .
 git commit -m 'Changes in the commit'
 git push origin HEAD        # push the current branch to remote 
 git checkout master         # back to master branch now
If you don't want to keep the changes in a specific commit then you could do:
# stash

 git add -A
 git stash
 git checkout master
# reset
 git reset --hard HEAD
 git checkout master

Git checkout HEAD- switching back to HEAD

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