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Re: git svn rebase - could not detach HEAD

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Tony Stubbs <antony.stubbs@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2008, 12:53 UTC
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2008/8/7 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
>> that seems to have got it. so are you going to apply that patch to git proper?
>
> It already is.
Great!
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>> <manually deleted "untracked file" here>
>
> Maybe you're ignoring that file? git clean deletes ignored files only if
> you use -x/-X.
>
> Björn
>

That's probably it, I'll try it tomorrow. However, that could be a problem. There's ignored files I don't want to keep (build artifacts), and there's ignored files I do want to keep (i.e. .metadata). Is there a good solution?

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  3. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2008
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