From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: problem using git on cygwin Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:46:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: srinivas naga vutukuri X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 30 13:47:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiULU-0000gi-Dy for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:47:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031104AbXD3LrE (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:47:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031102AbXD3LrD (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:47:03 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39515 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1031093AbXD3LrA (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:47:00 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2007 11:46:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 30 Apr 2007 13:46:59 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18FsQ4P7sIFadkpSYoXki/3y+sUQ6mDRZPiKyWOY5 gLCV8S534qZDEY X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, srinivas naga vutukuri wrote: > $ git add project/test.c > error: bad index file sha1 signature > fatal: index file corrupt I could imagine that you do not have "binary mode" default for opening files. However, if you do, maybe your .git/index went corrupt? As a workaround, you could try "git read-tree HEAD" and then "git add" again, but make sure you have a backup of .git/index, since it could be a bug in Git(cygwin) and if so, I'd like to fix it. Ciao, Dscho