[...] do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b new_branch_name HEAD is now at c364d17... - updated to 1.7.9 - removed obsolete xserver-1.19 patch fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Available branches: master Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9-1... Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1_7_9-1... --2018-03-15 09:19:26-- http://distfiles.pld-linux.org/distfiles/by-md5/6/8/68b9ebf1bda752ac21606857d236f0f5/xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9.tar.bz2 Resolving distfiles.pld-linux.org (distfiles.pld-linux.org)... 193.239.45.41 Connecting to distfiles.pld-linux.org (distfiles.pld-linux.org)|193.239.45.41|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 416351 (407K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: 'xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9.tar.bz2' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 12% 1.22M 0s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 24% 2.42M 0s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 36% 70.0M 0s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 49% 80.8M 0s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 61% 2.57M 0s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 73% 67.1M 0s 300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 86% 69.8M 0s 350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 98% 88.8M 0s 400K ...... 100% 153M=0.08s 2018-03-15 09:19:27 (4.81 MB/s) - 'xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9.tar.bz2' saved [416351/416351] Building target platforms: i686-linux Wrote: /home/users/builder/rpm/SRPMS/xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9-1.src.rpm exit status 0 Tagging with prefix: auto/ti/ HEAD is now at c364d17... - updated to 1.7.9 - removed obsolete xserver-1.19 patch fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Writing git revision for tag auto/ti/xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9-1 On detached HEAD. Use -r BRANCHNAME to override error: Macro %_builddir has empty body error: Macro %_builddir has empty body Executing(--clean): env -i TMP=/home/users/builder/tmp HOME=/home/users/builder PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin TMPDIR=/home/users/builder/tmp /bin/sh -e /home/users/builder/tmp/rpm-tmp.6378 + umask 022 + cd /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9 Begin-TLD-Builder-Info Build-Time: user:0.54s sys:0.11s real:2.04s (faults io:0 non-io:91773) Files queued for ftp: 422261 xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9-1.src.rpm 209 xorg-driver-video-siliconmotion-1.7.9-1.src.rpm.uploadinfo End-TLD-Builder-Info