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Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

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JTJames Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>
Date
May 26, 2010, 13:13 UTC
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On 26 May 2010, at 10:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
>> fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce this with Git 1.7. Which version are you using?
I was using 1.7.1.
Someone in the IRC channel 'doener' spotted it after some tracing and so on. I was cloning inside a working dir of another repo, and this was causing the problem.
Thanks to everyone for their help!
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  1. James TuckerMay 26, 2010
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 26, 2010
  3. James TuckerMay 26, 2010
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 26, 2010

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