Ive also verified that doing some change, and making a follow up commit off of the branch checked out from detached head and then trying to merge it back did not solve the problem either.
RIght now I have this:
Checking out either of those two branches that were checked out from detached heads has what im looking for… Yet when I merge them to master I still dont have my styles.
I wish I knew a better answer as this has happened many times before. Ill make a mistake and then later realize I have to go back to some commit. My solution is always to checkout the detached head as a new branch, set that checked out branch as the new main branch, delete the master branch, and then rename that to master.