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Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus

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Wwalt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date
Sep 23, 2005, 00:56 UTC
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<dgvjs3$4so$1@sea.gmane.org>
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walt wrote: [...]

> After I repeated the cg-update (successfully) I was still left with
> the 'bad file' error.  I tried 'cg-restore' and the error went away.
Oops -- correction!

After encountering the same problem on a different machine, I find that 'cg-reset' is the one which fixed the error, not 'cg-restore'.

I believe that I tried both commands on the first machine, so I was uncertain which one actually did the fix.

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Message 6 of 6 in “'bad file' error updating from Linus”
  1. waltSep 22, 2005
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  3. waltSep 22, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsSep 22, 2005
  5. H. Peter AnvinSep 23, 2005
  6. waltSep 23, 2005

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