Hi, On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Could you please > > > > GIT_TRACE=1 make quick-install-doc > > > > ? It breaks here, too, but because I have no origin/man branch. > > > > Ciao, > > Dscho > > > > > > > git>GIT_TRACE=1 make prefix=/usr quick-install-doc > make -C Documentation quick-install > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/git/Documentation' > make -C ../ GIT-VERSION-FILE > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/git' > make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git' > sh ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/man /usr/share/man > trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir' > trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'origin/man^0' > trace: built-in: git 'read-tree' 'origin/man' > trace: built-in: git 'checkout-index' '-a' '-f' '--prefix=/usr/share/man/' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git/Documentation' At this point, could you try debugging it? For example, set a break point in set_work_tree(), since that is the only function that commit touches, and see what it returns both before and after the bad commit? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html