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From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@lsd.di.uminho.pt>
To: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git repo being corrupted?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:17:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080407111740.GA12776@bit.office.eurotux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F9F1A1.30009@diamand.org>

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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:04:17AM +0100, Luke Diamand wrote:
> I've recently started to notice the following being reported:
> 
> % git-status
> error: bad index file sha1 signature
> fatal: index file corrupt
> 
> (a) Is there anything I can do to fix this (apart from git-clone from
> the repo and start over) ? git-fsck reports the same problem.

rm -f .git/index should do it.

> (b) What is causing it? Is it just my hard disk failing, or is it a bug?
> A memory test seems to be OK.
> 
> Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64
> File system is XFS
> git version 1.5.4.4

You're using XFS. Did you have a power fail in the recent past?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07 10:04 git repo being corrupted? Luke Diamand
2008-04-07 11:17 ` Luciano Rocha [this message]
2008-04-07 11:21   ` Luke Diamand
2008-04-07 11:39     ` Luciano Rocha
2008-04-07 16:15       ` David Brown
2008-04-07 16:47         ` Luciano Rocha

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