From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:37:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated
Message-ID: <7vslvn6m6y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200509292138.26183.oliver@neukum.org>

Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2005 21:34 schrieb Jon Loeliger:
>> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:08, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> 
>> > Unfortunately, following the instructions to the letter produces this:
>> > oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> git checkout
>> > usage: read-tree (<sha> | -m <sha1> [<sha2> <sha3>])
>> 
>> Yeah.  See if you still have a .git/HEADS that symlinks
>> to a valid place or not...?
>
> oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> ls -la .git/
> insgesamt 14
> drwxrwxr-x    6 oliver users  224 2005-09-29 21:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x    3 oliver users   72 2005-09-29 20:45 ..
> -rw-rw-r--    1 oliver users   19 2005-05-02 01:02 description
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 oliver users   17 2005-09-29 21:06 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
> -rw-------    1 oliver users   32 2005-09-29 21:06 index

I wonder what that 32-byte small file called 'index' is doing
there.  If this is the kernel tree, its index file should weigh
about 1.7MB if I recall correctly.