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I: [trinity-devel] Help! fatal: destination path 'main/applications/ktorrent' already exists and is not an empty directory.

From: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@...>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:11:58 +0000 (GMT)
> All,

> 
>  Within the past couple of days I now am getting a lot of these 
>  types of messages when I attempt to sync my local tree:
> 
>  fatal: destination path 'main/applications/ktorrent' already exists 
>  and is not an empty directory.
> 
>  Thus far the only fix I have found is to delete the entire module 
>  and resync.
> 
>  The problem is there is no .git directory in the affected modules. 
>  I have no idea how to fix and searching the web is not helping.
> 
>  There seems to be no end to the madness. With each resync a new 
>  module is affected.
> 
>  Please help!
> 
>  Darrell
> 
 
There may be a better and quicker way, but in a case like this I would do a 
clean checkout. It takes a few hours, but at least you can be sure everything is as it should be.
 
  Michele