[GTALUG] [OT] Git Conundrum

Anthony de Boer adb at adb.ca
Sat Nov 8 00:38:24 UTC 2014


Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Have a git repo with squashed bugs coming back from the dead ...

Any chance it's a C project with missing dependencies in the makefiles?
That's a classic way of checking out the right source code but having
lingering bad binaries.

Clock skew can do it too: if the machine hasn't always had stable time
then "before" and "after" become wonky.

If in doubt, make clean (and verify that doesn't leave anything that
isn't source) and rebuild all.

-- 
Anthony de Boer


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