Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] (local ?) BOINC repo broken again -or- how to act on the CR/LF changes made upstream

From: Toralf Förster <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:04:28 +0200

On 09/12/2014 08:55 PM, Rom Walton wrote:
> Crud...
> 
> Well, personally, I would delete the locale directory and the two translation files in html.
> 
> Do the 'git pull', and then switch between master and some other branch.
> 
> like:
> git checkout -f client_release/7/7.4
> git checkout -f master
> 
> It is round about, but it should get the job done.

Re-cloning seems to be the only way, b/c :

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/boinc-v2 $ git checkout -f client_release/7/7.4
Branch client_release/7/7.4 set up to track remote branch client_release/7/7.4 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'client_release/7/7.4'

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/boinc-v2 $ git checkout -f master
Checking out files: 100% (234/234), done.
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 7 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
  (use "git pull" to update your local branch)

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/boinc-v2 $ git pull
Updating ce97e85..d2e5582
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
...
<same picture as before>

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Toralf
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