HEAD detached at origin/master

Question

I\'ve just checked out an old project to fix a bug. git reports:

HEAD detached at origin/master

git status reports I have an untra

Answer 1

No you're not on the master branch, your on some kind of "newly invented" branch without a name that was once the master.

You simply need to switch back to the master:

git checkout master

However if you wish to fix a bug, you should work at your own branch (according to most git workflows). Thus checkout the master and branch from it:

git checkout master
git checkout -b fix-issue #give the branch a name that refers to the bug

then fix the bug and run:

git checkout master
git merge --no-ff fix-issue -m "Fixed some strange issue, here follows a description"

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EDIT

As specified in your question you have an untracked file. If these file(s) are of no importance, you can remove them. If on the other hand you wish to maintain them, you can merge them into the master first.

Therefore you create a temporary branch:

git commit -m "some temporary message"
git checkout -b temporary
git checkout master
git merge --no-ff temporary