Re: Core dump on commit

["Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>]

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On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 16:09 +0000, Marko Vukovic wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I should have written "git reset --soft 1b9a976133", which resets HEAD
> > ref back to (assuming) good commit. See [1] for more information. I
> > think for some reason, eGit put a tag object to HEAD, while it should
> > be a commit object. By resetting it back to the commit that the tag
> > points to, you may be able to commit again.
> > 
> > No history would be lost. Also if you use --soft, index should be
> > untouched. As always, back up your repository (copy the whole
> > directory, including .git) before doing anything.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-reset.html
> 
> Thank you very much, I was able to commit after the reset.
> 
> I shall remember never to use eGit for tagging in the future!

A (probably) more useful way to deal with it would be to report a bug to
EGIT so they know about it and can fix it.

Cheers,
   cmn


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