Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> For that matter, dying without removing the trace of that funny state
> might be even preferrable if you need to do postmortem to figure out why
> you got into such a funny state to begin with, but not everybody uses git
> to debug git.

It turns out to be user error, that was a tree I hadn't used in a long
time and I didn't realize it was using alternates, so HEAD was pointing
to a commit that had been rebased and garbage-collected in the source
repository.

Most other commands die with a "bad object HEAD" in that situation, and
checkout could certainly do that too, but I think it's nicer to provide
an easy way of getting out of that broken state.  I'll resend an updated
patch.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
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