From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mark E Mason" Subject: RE: Fatal error from git bisect Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:21:27 -0800 Message-ID: <7E000E7F06B05C49BDBB769ADAF44D0773A4BC@NT-SJCA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 09 22:22:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7JEf-0000OW-9y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:21:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750802AbWBIVVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:21:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750800AbWBIVVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:21:49 -0500 Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:64274 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750802AbWBIVVs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:21:48 -0500 Received: from 10.10.64.154 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.2.0)); Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:21:33 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: D9EB6F12-1469-4C1C-87A2-5E4C0D6F9D06 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id 633D32B1; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2982AF; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-sj1-12.sj.broadcom.com (mail-sj1-12.sj.broadcom.com [10.16.128.215]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CWW76114; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from NT-SJCA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com (nt-sjca-0750 [10.16.192.220]) by mail-sj1-12.sj.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35A320502; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:21:28 -0800 (PST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: Fatal error from git bisect Thread-Index: AcYttbiqcjwydgnsQyOLXhUVEht2pwACOowQ To: "Linus Torvalds" X-TMWD-Spam-Summary: SEV=1.1; DFV=A2006020908; IFV=2.0.6,4.0-7; RPD=4.00.0004; RPDID=303030312E30413039303230342E34334542423038342E303037372D412D; ENG=IBF; TS=20060209212136; CAT=NONE; CON=NONE; X-MMS-Spam-Filter-ID: A2006020908_4.00.0004_2.0.6,4.0-7 X-WSS-ID: 6FF56DD71SC5173085-01-01 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, > From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] [snip] > Now, it could be a git bug, but before you go there, try to > make sure tat your tree is really clean. Do a > > git checkout -f master > > followed by "git status" to make sure that the workspace is > clean (no unexpected untracked files, no diffs against HEAD, > no nothing). The "git checkout -f master" should have cleaned > everything up, but it won't actually touch extra files that > it doesn't know about, so.. That did the trick. Thanks very much for the pointer, it's much appreciated. Thanks, Mark