[...] 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 223bc23... - updated to 0.9.10 (bounds checking fixes) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Available branches: master Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.10-1... Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrender-0_9_10-1... --2017-04-13 07:26:07-- http://distfiles.pld-linux.org/distfiles/by-md5/8/0/802179a76bded0b658f4e9ec5e1830a4/libXrender-0.9.10.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: 308318 (301K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: 'libXrender-0.9.10.tar.bz2' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 1.05M 0s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 33% 2.10M 0s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 49% 81.1M 0s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 66% 111M 0s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 83% 2.14M 0s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 254M 0s 300K . 100% 2082G=0.09s 2017-04-13 07:26:07 (3.14 MB/s) - 'libXrender-0.9.10.tar.bz2' saved [308318/308318] Building target platforms: i686-linux Wrote: /home/users/builder/rpm/SRPMS/xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.10-1.src.rpm exit status 0 Tagging with prefix: auto/ti/ HEAD is now at 223bc23... - updated to 0.9.10 (bounds checking fixes) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Writing git revision for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.10-1 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.24126 + umask 022 + cd /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf libXrender-0.9.10 Begin-TLD-Builder-Info Build-Time: user:0.62s sys:0.21s real:1.96s (faults io:0 non-io:90148) Files queued for ftp: 313724 xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.10-1.src.rpm 198 xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.10-1.src.rpm.uploadinfo End-TLD-Builder-Info