Extra file in GHC repo

[Matthew Pickering]

The docs/index.html used to be generated by configure (and now it's
not). So you get this error when you have a dirty tree and try to
checkout a newer commit where the generated version will get
overwritten by the new non-generated version.

Matt

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:46 AM Simon Peyton Jones
<simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi devs
>
> I've started to get this a lot
>
> bash$ git rebase origin/master
> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
> error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
> docs/index.html
> Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
> Aborting
> fatal: Could not detach HEAD
>
> Removing docs/index.html makes things work again.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Simon
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