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RE: Fatal error from git bisect

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MMMark E Mason <mark.e.mason@broadcom.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2006, 21:21 UTC
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Hello, 
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] 
[snip]
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> Now, it could be a git bug, but before you go there, try to 
> make sure tat your tree is really clean. Do a
> 
> 	git checkout -f master
> 
> followed by "git status" to make sure that the workspace is 
> clean (no unexpected untracked files, no diffs against HEAD, 
> no nothing). The "git checkout -f master" should have cleaned 
> everything up, but it won't actually touch extra files that 
> it doesn't know about, so..

That did the trick. Thanks very much for the pointer, it's much appreciated.

Thanks, Mark

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