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Meaning of the “[HEAD]” badge in program header?
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Meaning of the “[HEAD]” badge in program header?
10-04-2021, 08:24 PM
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So I have a bit of an odd question: what does [HEAD] denote? I’ve never noticed this on any version of Dolphin before, it could just be that I’m unobservant. Could anyone explain what this means?

I’m running 5.0-15260, see attached screenshot for reference.

I only ask because I had some very strange happenings/slowdown on my computer after downloading and running texture packs, and only now am I noticing this [HEAD] in the title. I want to be sure nothing malicious somehow hooked itself into Dolphin. Thanks in advance!
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10-05-2021, 12:52 AM
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This is happening due to a slight configuration change on the machine that creates Windows builds for https://dolphin-emu.org/download/, and was fixed shortly after 5.0-15260 was built. So, it isn't anything on your end, it's on our end. It doesn't affect Dolphin in any way other than showing that extra "[HEAD]" text in the title bar and showing the branch in the About dialog as "HEAD".

If you want to know the technical details of what happened, we updated to a new version of the buildbot software which uses git checkout instead of git reset, and this ended up resulting in a detached HEAD in git. Can't say I understand the buildbot software well enough to know how the fix actually worked, though Smile
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