Fatal git error on .git/modules/libffi-tarballs

2014-07-20 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, while working on HEAD and after a few iteraction of ./validate my git complains with: $ git status fatal: Not a git repository: /export/home/karel/vcs/ghc-src/ghc-git-test-2/.git/modules/libffi-tarballs karel@silence:~/vcs/ghc-src/ghc-solaris-validate-fix$ Is this a known error or

Re: Fatal git error on .git/modules/libffi-tarballs

2014-07-20 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello Karel, You should blow away your copy (well, preserve the patches), upgrade your version of Git and then check out again. You've run into this bug: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/193492 Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of 2014-07-20