From: Alberto Patino <pato.lukaz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:10:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated
Message-ID: <4489a22a0509300810y723e5ef5tb9109a29508a1e38@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <433D447E.9030103@pobox.com>

On 9/30/05, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >
> > The error is still there.
> >
> > oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> git checkout -f master
> > usage: read-tree (<sha> | -m <sha1> [<sha2> <sha3>])
>
> Something's wrong with your installation, not the instructions.  Works
> fine here.
>

Right , you must have a corrupted copy of the git repo. Do the initial
cloning of the linux repository again, and then retry the git
checkout.