From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:05:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] unable to checkout branch with a clean worktree
Message-ID: <20090105160527.GA7718@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <35079.bFoQE3daRhY=.1231170168.squirrel@webmail.hotelhot.dk>

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:42:48PM +0100, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> Git v1.6.1: The final checkout fails with an error about merge conflicts.
> However, the worktree is clean, and I am not trying to do a merge.
> 
> Is this a known issue? If so, what is the particular issue that we should
> avoid?

This is fixed by the recent patches for verify_absent. (Actually, just PATCH
2/3 should be enough to fix this issue.)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104317