On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:29:43AM -0700, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@python.org> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 02:28:08PM +0000, Jason R. Coombs wrote:
> 
> > If you run such a buildbot, please consider running this command on
> > your repo to bypass the issue:
> > 
> > git rm -r :/ ; git checkout HEAD -- :/
> >
> > You may want to consider adding this command after every update to the
> > repo to avoid the stale state.
> 
> What does this do? Especially the first command. Is this Windows specific?

Git specific. It means "remove every file and directory recursively
starting from the root of the repository". ``-r`` means recursive;
``:/`` is a "magic" git-specific path "root of the repo".

The second command checks out everything from the HEAD commit back to
the filesystem.

> -- 
> Senthil

Oleg.
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