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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:50:09 -0500
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I kicked off a pull.
Realized I was on the wrong branch
and immediately did a ^C

Now I can't change branches:

# git checkout release
fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists

git reset --hard
does not help.

curiously, moving .git/index to /tmp and repeating
results in the same error.

clues?

thanks,
-Len