From: Mark E Mason <mark.e.mason@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:21:27 GMT
Subject: RE: Fatal error from git bisect
Message-ID: <7E000E7F06B05C49BDBB769ADAF44D0773A4BC@NT-SJCA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>

Hello, 

> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] 
[snip]
> 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