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Re: fatal: git write-tree failed to write a tree

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Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2009, 00:23 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> A tree cannot contain unmerged files.
>

I didn't do that, git did. I've tried running git reset --hard HEAD (and git status shows a clean tree before hand).

so how can I resolve it?
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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