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user-manual: use detached head when rewriting history

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This is slightly simpler if we use a detached head.  And it's probably
good to have another example that uses this feature.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ $ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
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[[detached-head]]
Examining an old version without creating a new branch
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@ -2055,22 +2056,22 @@ $ git tag bad mywork~5
(Either gitk or git-log may be useful for finding the commit.)
Then check out a new branch at that commit, edit it, and rebase the rest of
the series on top of it:
Then check out that commit, edit it, and rebase the rest of the series
on top of it (note that we could check out the commit on a temporary
branch, but instead we're using a <<detached-head,detached head>>):
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$ git checkout -b TMP bad
$ git checkout bad
$ # make changes here and update the index
$ git commit --amend
$ git rebase --onto TMP bad mywork
$ git rebase --onto HEAD bad mywork
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When you're done, you'll be left with mywork checked out, with the top patches
on mywork reapplied on top of the modified commit you created in TMP. You can
When you're done, you'll be left with mywork checked out, with the top
patches on mywork reapplied on top of your modified commit. You can
then clean up with
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$ git branch -d TMP
$ git tag -d bad
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