Re: Git rebase -i failing on cygwin -- git checkout-index says File Exists

From: Ludvig Strigeus <strigeus@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <4285cd450901201212k504eeb6bp69f6543750f0259@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4285cd450901201209i792195dfmdec1fb14d627b25e@mail.gmail.com>

By the way, the version I use is:

$ git --version git version 1.6.1.48.ge9b8

/Ludde

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Ludvig Strigeus <strigeus@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm having some weird problem with Git on Cygwin on Windows XP. I
> start with a totally clean repo, and then run interactive rebase to
> edit a historical commit. I exit the editor without doing anything (I
> get similar issues if I modify stuff inside the editor).
>
> $ git st
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> $ git rebase -i 4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c
> error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/stringfuncs.cpp
> (File exists)
> fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '4965936'.
> error: Entry 'util/boink-py.cc' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
> fatal: merging of trees 0c27b10e163f00655486976896d096302b0f5c21 and
> 7c7dfd93d678cfc564649738d45260e0b5d9f5a7 failed
> Could not apply d9c7ac9... Various reorganizations.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludde
>