# RE: Fatal error from git bisect

2 messages from 2006-02-09 to 2006-02-09. Participants: Mark E Mason, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3277

## Mark E Mason, 2006-02-09 21:21

Subject: RE: Fatal error from git bisect
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Hello, 

> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] 
[snip]
> Now, it could be a git bug, but before you go there, try to 
> make sure tat your tree is really clean. Do a
> 
> 	git checkout -f master
> 
> followed by "git status" to make sure that the workspace is 
> clean (no unexpected untracked files, no diffs against HEAD, 
> no nothing). The "git checkout -f master" should have cleaned 
> everything up, but it won't actually touch extra files that 
> it doesn't know about, so..

That did the trick.  Thanks very much for the pointer, it's much
appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

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## Junio C Hamano, 2006-02-09 21:32

Subject: Re: Fatal error from git bisect
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"Mark E Mason" <mark.e.mason@broadcom.com> writes:

> That did the trick.  Thanks very much for the pointer, it's much
> appreciated.

Thanks, both of you.  This got me worried, especially when I am
at work and cannot pull the whole mips tree to take a look at it
myself.

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