[...] 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 38682e0... - updated to 1.0.11 (fixes CVE-2016-5407) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Available branches: master Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.11-1... Searching for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXv-1_0_11-1... --2017-04-13 07:26:10-- http://distfiles.pld-linux.org/distfiles/by-md5/2/1/210b6ef30dda2256d54763136faa37b9/libXv-1.0.11.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: 317921 (310K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: 'libXv-1.0.11.tar.bz2' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 1.06M 0s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 32% 2.07M 0s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 48% 107M 0s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 64% 410M 0s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 80% 2.15M 0s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 96% 152M 0s 300K .......... 100% 201M=0.09s 2017-04-13 07:26:11 (3.24 MB/s) - 'libXv-1.0.11.tar.bz2' saved [317921/317921] Building target platforms: i686-linux Wrote: /home/users/builder/rpm/SRPMS/xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.11-1.src.rpm exit status 0 Tagging with prefix: auto/ti/ HEAD is now at 38682e0... - updated to 1.0.11 (fixes CVE-2016-5407) fatal: HEAD does not point to a branch Writing git revision for tag auto/ti/xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.11-1 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.72301 + umask 022 + cd /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf libXv-1.0.11 Begin-TLD-Builder-Info Build-Time: user:0.56s sys:0.14s real:1.84s (faults io:0 non-io:90982) Files queued for ftp: 323339 xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.11-1.src.rpm 193 xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.11-1.src.rpm.uploadinfo End-TLD-Builder-Info