{"version":"2.1.221","anchor":"cloud-review-better-messages-for-detached-head-and-wrong-bas","canonical_anchor":"cloud-review-better-messages-for-detached-head-and-wrong-bas","heading":"Cloud review: better messages for detached HEAD and wrong base branch","tier":"notice","area":"Code Review","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221\/e\/cloud-review-better-messages-for-detached-head-and-wrong-bas","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221","markdown":"### Cloud review: better messages for detached HEAD and wrong base branch\n\nCloud review now tells you to create a branch on detached HEAD instead of failing with a vague error.\n\n**What**\n\nCloud review failures on a checkout with no branches now return a dedicated `no_merge_base` error telling you to create a branch first, and the \"shares no history with HEAD\" message suggests passing the real base branch explicitly.\n\n**Details**\n\n- detached-HEAD checkouts previously fell through to a generic bundling failure\n- the no-shared-history path now names the likely cause rather than only reporting it\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Your checkout has no branches (detached HEAD only), which cloud review can't bundle.`\n\n- Area: Code Review\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5"}