From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:36:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated
Message-ID: <200509301036.16887.oliver@neukum.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vslvn6m6y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 09:37 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> writes:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2005 21:34 schrieb Jon Loeliger:
> >> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:08, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Unfortunately, following the instructions to the letter produces this:
> >> > oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> git checkout
> >> > usage: read-tree (<sha> | -m <sha1> [<sha2> <sha3>])
> >> 
> >> Yeah.  See if you still have a .git/HEADS that symlinks
> >> to a valid place or not...?
> >
> > oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> ls -la .git/
> > insgesamt 14
> > drwxrwxr-x    6 oliver users  224 2005-09-29 21:06 .
> > drwxr-xr-x    3 oliver users   72 2005-09-29 20:45 ..
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 oliver users   19 2005-05-02 01:02 description
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 oliver users   17 2005-09-29 21:06 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
> > -rw-------    1 oliver users   32 2005-09-29 21:06 index
> 
> I wonder what that 32-byte small file called 'index' is doing
> there.  If this is the kernel tree, its index file should weigh
> about 1.7MB if I recall correctly.

I have no idea, but the instructions as stated didn't work for me.
Can you replicate that?

	Regards
		Oliver