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From: James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:13:16 -0300
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On 26 May 2010, at 10:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
>> fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce this with Git 1.7. Which version are you using?

I was using 1.7.1.

Someone in the IRC channel 'doener' spotted it after some tracing and so on. I was cloning inside a working dir of another repo, and this was causing the problem.

Thanks to everyone for their help!