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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fatal: BUG: dashless options don't support arguments
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:18:18 -0500
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[Context:
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2010-10-06
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/128066/focus=145945 ]

Hi Brian,

Brian Zitzow wrote:

> Ki:$ git checkout master
> fatal: BUG: dashless options don't support arguments

Strange indeed.  Here's what I would suggest:

1. For debugging output:

 $ echo 'prefix=/usr/local' >>config.mak; # or whatever prefix you use
 $ git describe
 $ gcc --version
 $ wget 'http://download.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/128067/128068'
 $ git am -3 128068
 $ make
 $ bin-wrappers/git checkout m

2. To track down the issue, if you like to read assembler:

 $ make builtin/checkout.s
 $ vi checkout.s

Good luck,
Jonathan