Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

Alberto Patino
2005-09-30T15:10:58Z

On 9/30/05, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >
> > The error is still there.
> >
> > oliver@oenone:~/linux-2.6> git checkout -f master
> > usage: read-tree (<sha> | -m <sha1> [<sha2> <sha3>])
>
> Something's wrong with your installation, not the instructions. Works
> fine here.
>

Right , you must have a corrupted copy of the git repo. Do the initial
cloning of the linux repository again, and then retry the git
checkout.