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Re: Strangely hosed git install

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
May 28, 2009, 09:39 UTC
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Might be. Maybe ~/bin got cleaned up but not libexec? Or the bisecting
> back-and-forth left stray bits in ~/bin?

The problem was with a polluted libexec. Clearing/reinstalling git in my ~/bin didn't help, but the same procedure in libexec worked.

Minor note for people bisecting random versions of git :-)
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