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

[Karel Gardas]

Indeed! Thanks for the fast help. Updating to 1.8.5 solved this issue.

Karel

On 07/20/14 08:31 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> 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 18:55:08 +0100:
>>
>> 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 at silence:~/vcs/ghc-src/ghc-solaris-validate-fix$
>>
>> Is this a known error or is there any known workaround for this issue?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Karel
>