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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:33:34 -0500
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On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It mentions longhorn.
> 
> Anyway, regardless, we could certainly make HEAD be a regular file 
> containing the name of the head instead.

I cleverly removed a branch this morning (intentionally),
but what I failed to realize was that it was also the
current HEAD.  The next series of command were oddly
cryptic, only telling me the git-read-tree usage message.
Not a clue in the world why, of course.  After poking
around, reading some scripts and all, I discovered that
I had a dangling .git/HEAD symlink still point to my
removed branch.

Would it be worthwhile for me to re-discover this
Wonky Failure (Hi Linus! :-) and try to write it up
somewhere or dream up a better error message patch?

Thanks,
jdl