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Little tip I picked up the other day that I've never seen documented elsewhere.  If you have a git clone of Qt and you're constantly switching between divergent branches such as master and qt4.6-stable, or following a fast changing branch, you will eventually run into compile issues where it looks like the build is broken because of missing headers or symbols and even a 'make clean' or './configure' doesn't solve it.  Try run ./bin/syncqt to see if that solves your problems, this is a script that apparently fixes up all the installed qt headers and stuff like that.  It took me a while to discover this, I actually deleted my local repository and re-cloned a couple of times in the mistaken belief that I had horribly corrupted it.  Perhaps it could be added to the Qt Gitorious wiki that a 'git pull' or 'git checkout' should always be followed by a './bin/syncqt' to be safe?

Anyone else with any useful tips like this when hacking on Qt?

Hey, I'm actually finally getting my head around all this git stuff...