OK so I should delete the file -- and then the error should not re-occur,
correct?

thanks

Simon

On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 13:37, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpicker...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The docs/index.html used to be generated by configure (and now it's
> not). So you get this error when you have a dirty tree and try to
> checkout a newer commit where the generated version will get
> overwritten by the new non-generated version.
>
> Matt
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:46 AM Simon Peyton Jones
> <simon.peytonjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi devs
> >
> > I've started to get this a lot
> >
> > bash$ git rebase origin/master
> > First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
> > error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
> by checkout:
> > docs/index.html
> > Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
> > Aborting
> > fatal: Could not detach HEAD
> >
> > Removing docs/index.html makes things work again.  What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Simon
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