Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] git pull is failing again

[Chris Hanson]

Mea culpa.  Despite the advice that it was a bad idea, I turned on the
"ident" feature.  Later, I turned it off again.  No big surprise that
this feature causes trouble.

Sorry about the extra work.  I suggest just checking out a fresh copy
and merging your changes into it.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Taylor R Campbell<address@hidden> wrote:
>   Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:46:35 -0700
>   From: address@hidden (Matt Birkholz)
>
>   I just did some "git pull"s that balked too.  I assumed it was the
>   usual confusion about whether a file has the "ident" attribute nor
>   not, and just cleaned up my working directories (again).  Some form of
>   "git reset" command seemed to get the thing clean.  In your "clean"
>   working directory, "git reset --hard" should suffice.
>
> I have been told to use `git reset --hard' several times before for
> other problems I have encountered in clean repositories.  That has
> been a little disconcerting, and now problems have shown up in my
> working repository.  I'm not sure whether to be glad that I'm not the
> only one having these problems -- at least they are not random,
> unreproducible failures, but I really can't say I'm inspired with
> confidence in Git.
>
>
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