[Users] GetComponents

[Erik Schnetter]

Dear GetComponents users

[The warning below concerns only the development version of the
Einstein Toolkit from the past 24 hours.]

Yesterday, I corrected a problem in GetComponents that would make it
sometimes report errors about git repositories when, in fact,
everything was fine: In general, to update a git repository that
contains local, uncommitted changes, one first "stashes" these changes
away, then updates the repository and resolves conflicts, and then
"pops" the stashed changes again and resolves conflicts, if necessary.
GetComponents would sometimes try to pop local changes when, in fact,
there were none.

In the process of correcting this, I introduced (and then corrected)
another error. This would result in stashing local changes that were
then never popped. Unless you are familiar with git, you may not
realise that you now have stashed changes that need popping.

In short: If you used a GetComponents checkout from the past 24 hours
on git repositories with local changes, please check for stashed
changes named "GetComponents-tmp". To do so, go to the respective
repository, and then type "git stash list". To pop a stash manually,
type "git stash help" and "git stash pop".

-erik

-- 
Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/