[...] If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b new_branch_name HEAD is now at 549b00c... - updated to 1.5.1 (bounds checking fixes) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Available branches: master Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.5.1-1... Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrandr-1_5_1-1... --2017-04-13 07:26:05-- http://distfiles.pld-linux.org/distfiles/by-md5/2/8/28e486f1d491b757173dd85ba34ee884/libXrandr-1.5.1.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: 315769 (308K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: 'libXrandr-1.5.1.tar.bz2' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 1.04M 0s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 32% 2.07M 0s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 48% 39.1M 0s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 64% 182M 0s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81% 2.15M 0s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 97% 132M 0s 300K ........ 100% 132M=0.1s 2017-04-13 07:26:05 (3.17 MB/s) - 'libXrandr-1.5.1.tar.bz2' saved [315769/315769] Building target platforms: i686-linux Wrote: /home/users/builder/rpm/SRPMS/xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.5.1-1.src.rpm exit status 0 Tagging with prefix: auto/ti/ HEAD is now at 549b00c... - updated to 1.5.1 (bounds checking fixes) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Writing git revision for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.5.1-1 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.86105 + umask 022 + cd /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf libXrandr-1.5.1 Begin-TLD-Builder-Info Build-Time: user:0.64s sys:0.23s real:2.03s (faults io:0 non-io:90913) Files queued for ftp: 321372 xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.5.1-1.src.rpm 196 xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.5.1-1.src.rpm.uploadinfo End-TLD-Builder-Info