Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Retaining Changes Made in the Detached HEAD State

The video tutorial explains how to handle experimental commits in Git, emphasizing the importance of creating new branches to preserve changes made in a detached head state. It covers the process of creating and managing branches, merging them, and ensuring that experimental commits are retained. The tutorial also demonstrates how to safely delete branches while keeping the commit history intact, using Git commands and visual tools like SourceTree.

What is the significance of the merge commit in relation to the experimental commits?

Describe the steps to delete an experimental branch after merging.

What should you do if you want to keep changes made in a detached head state?