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Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

From
Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date
Sep 26, 2005, 19:33 UTC
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On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It mentions longhorn.
> 
> Anyway, regardless, we could certainly make HEAD be a regular file 
> containing the name of the head instead.

I cleverly removed a branch this morning (intentionally), but what I failed to realize was that it was also the current HEAD. The next series of command were oddly cryptic, only telling me the git-read-tree usage message. Not a clue in the world why, of course. After poking around, reading some scripts and all, I discovered that I had a dangling .git/HEAD symlink still point to my removed branch.

Would it be worthwhile for me to re-discover this Wonky Failure (Hi Linus! :-) and try to write it up somewhere or dream up a better error message patch?

Thanks, jdl

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Message 27 of 38 in “git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin”
  1. Peter TB BrettSep 23, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 23, 2005
  3. Peter TB BrettSep 23, 2005
  4. Martin LanghoffSep 23, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2005
  9. Implementing diff, was Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on CygwinJohannes Schindelin, Sep 25, 2005
  10. Davide LibenziSep 25, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsSep 25, 2005
  12. Davide LibenziSep 25, 2005
  13. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2005
  16. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  18. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2005
  20. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2005
  23. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005
  24. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsSep 25, 2005
  27. Jon LoeligerSep 26, 2005
  28. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  29. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005
  30. Giuseppe BilottaSep 25, 2005
  31. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  32. Davide LibenziSep 26, 2005
  33. Giuseppe BilottaSep 26, 2005
  34. H. Peter AnvinSep 26, 2005
  35. Davide LibenziSep 26, 2005
  36. H. Peter AnvinSep 26, 2005
  37. Daniel BarkalowSep 25, 2005
  38. Davide LibenziSep 24, 2005

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