Git commit against tag with no branch

Question

If I check out a tagged version of my source code without creating a branch, Git indicates that I\'m not associated with any branch at all. It\'s happy to let me make changes an

Answer 1

To answer the second question you'd use git reset --hard yourtagname

As for what would happen you essentially forked your branch at the tagname and stayed on the same branch. Your commits in the old fork are still there... they're just hard to see. You might have to use the reflog to find the old fork.