From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Untracked working tree file" error with git pull
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:33:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe30804090703t5eda7a4bn290d89f0ce6c5615@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19F2D337-8BC8-4B3D-8ECC-B8B9FF261CB4@science.uva.nl>
> > While trying to get my latest org-mode fix from git this is what I
> > got.
> >
> > ,----
> > | lappy:~/elisp/org-mode $ time git pull
> > | Updating 2537ddc..862f6cb
> > | fatal: Untracked working tree file 'contrib/ChangeLog' would be
> > overwritten by merge.
> > |
> > | real 0m8.943s
> > | user 0m1.140s
> > | sys 0m1.370s
> > | lappy:~/elisp/org-mode $ git branch
> > | * master
> > | lappy:~/elisp/org-mode $ date
> > | Wed Apr 9 11:57:14 IST 2008
> > `----
> >
> > I renamed `CONTRIB/ChangeLog' to `CONTRIB/ChangeLog.old' and tried
> > again and this time it complained about `contrib/README'. Are the
> > errors because of something I did? I do not create or otherwise edit
> > any files apart from regular `make' and `texi2html org.texi'. I tried
> > `git checkout -f' to no avail. Any suggestions? Or do I have to do a
> > fresh clone?
> >
> > OS: WinXP+Cygwin
> > git version 1.5.4.34.g053d9
> > Emacs 22.2.1
> >
> > -- Manish
> >
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> I believe this may be caused by the fact that I have renamed CONTRIB to
> contrib.
> On a system which has no distinction between upper and lowercase names,
> maybe this leads
> to a conflict?
>
> Try removing the entire CONTRIB directory. If that fails, try to get a new
> clone of the repo.
This fixed it. Thanks.
-- Manish
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2008-04-09 6:43 "Untracked working tree file" error with git pull Manish
2008-04-09 8:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-09 14:03 ` Manish [this message]
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