From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] splitIndex with skipHash corrupts index and crashes status
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 12:11:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107121119.2995843-1-andy.koppe@gmail.com> (raw)
With both core.splitIndex and index.skipHash enabled (the latter e.g.
via feature.manyFiles), index entries are silently lost or corrupted
whenever the shared index is written.
$ git init -q r && cd r
$ git config core.splitIndex true
$ touch foo bar && git add . && git commit -qm init
$ git config index.skipHash true
$ git update-index --split-index
$ git ls-files
./
./
$ git status --short
BUG: wt-status.c:585: multiple renames on the same target? how?
Aborted (core dumped)
Without the explicit --split-index, this happens once the shared index
is rewritten because enough entries have changed.
In a new repository, the first git add writes a shared index, and the
added entry is lost straight away:
$ git init -q r && cd r
$ git config core.splitIndex true
$ git config index.skipHash true
$ touch foo && git add foo
$ git status --short
?? foo
$ ls .git | grep index
index
sharedindex.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Note the unexpected null OID.
Seen with v2.56.0 on x86_64 Linux.
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-07 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-07 12:11 Andy Koppe [this message]
2026-11-07 21:10 ` [BUG] splitIndex with skipHash corrupts index and crashes status Tanga Joris
2026-11-07 21:55 ` Andy Koppe
2026-11-07 22:24 ` Tanga Joris
2026-11-08 23:42 ` [Outreachy PATCH] read-cache: do not skip the hash of the shared index Tanga Joris
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