Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches

EGit strikes again. I made the mistake of trying to switch to a different branch in EGit and it somehow messed up and checked out no branch. I then made a commit to this non-branch, and then when I realized I wasn't tracking the right branch, I ran the following:

$ git checkout issue2
Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches:

    bada553d My commit message

If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this may be a good time to do so with:

    git branch new_branch_name ....

Branch issue2 set up to track remote branch issue2 from origin.
Switched to a new branch issue2. 

Now that I've botched things, how do I associate that commit with my current branch? I'm not interested in creating a brand new branch, I just want to pull that commit into my branch, issue2.

you can git cherry-pick bada553d if it's just the one commit.

You can also reference anywhere you've been by using the reflog:

git reflog

then use one of those commits:

git checkout -b temp HEAD@{3}

to checkout and make a branch temp from where your current commit was 3 "times" ago. It's a bread crumb of where you used to be.

If you just want to associate that commit with your current branch, you can simply do this

1. Run this command to create a new branch with that commit

   git branch temp {commit's SHA}

2. Then simply merge this commit with your current branch

   git merge temp

3. Now just delete the temporary new branch we created

   git branch -d temp

Also you can just apply tag to your commit after using git reflog when you'll know commit's hash:

 Git tag <tag's_name>  <commit's_hash>/HEAD@{<commit's_num>}