{"thread":{"id":"22975","subject":"Unknown index entry format 40000000","startedAt":"2010-03-10T10:45:04Z","lastAt":"2010-03-10T13:00:42Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Benedikt Andreas Koeppel","Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"136500","messageId":"9EE6DBC4-B025-48A1-B475-433DE5918F39@ee.ethz.ch","threadId":"22975","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Unknown index entry format 40000000","fromName":"Benedikt Andreas Koeppel","fromEmail":"bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch","sentAt":"2010-03-10T10:45:04Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-10T10:45:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI've set core.sparseCheckout true and added a .git/info/sparse-checkout file:\n*\n!source/crn/\n!source/maemo-beagle/\n!source/maemo-kernel/\n!source/u-boot/\n\nAfter that, I did\ngit co -- .\ngit reset --hard HEAD\n\nNow, I want to do\ngit pull\nbut I get an error:\n\nbeninb:git beni$ git pull -v\nFrom gmuasch:ife-maemo\n = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master\nfatal: Unknown index entry format 40000000\n\nI have git version 1.7.0.2, Mac OS X 10.6.2 on HFS+ case-*in*sensitive.\n\nI found that this error comes from read-cache.c, line 1235. What does this error message mean? How can I make my repo working again?\n\n\n\nThanks and Best Regards,\nBenedikt Köppel"},{"id":"136505","messageId":"fcaeb9bf1003100410j15ebd863ta4a2b817b28ac0f6@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"22975","inReplyTo":"9EE6DBC4-B025-48A1-B475-433DE5918F39@ee.ethz.ch","subject":"Re: Unknown index entry format 40000000","fromName":"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy","fromEmail":"pclouds@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-03-10T12:10:19Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-10T12:10:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pclouds@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/720?v=4"},"body":"On 3/10/10, Benedikt Andreas Koeppel <bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch> wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n>  I've set core.sparseCheckout true and added a .git/info/sparse-checkout file:\n>  *\n>  !source/crn/\n>  !source/maemo-beagle/\n>  !source/maemo-kernel/\n>  !source/u-boot/\n>\n>  After that, I did\n>  git co -- .\n>  git reset --hard HEAD\n>\n>  Now, I want to do\n>  git pull\n>  but I get an error:\n>\n>  beninb:git beni$ git pull -v\n>  From gmuasch:ife-maemo\n>   = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master\n>  fatal: Unknown index entry format 40000000\n>\n>  I have git version 1.7.0.2, Mac OS X 10.6.2 on HFS+ case-*in*sensitive.\n>\n>  I found that this error comes from read-cache.c, line 1235. What does this error message mean? How can I make my repo working again?\n\nIt means git does not understand flag 0x40000000. Git 1.7.0.2 should\nunderstand that bit. I can only guess that \"git pull\" is from older\nversion, or it ran a git command from older build. Do you have two\nversions of git on that machine?\n\nYou can turn off sparse checkout. That would remove all 0x4000000\nflags, which makes the index compatible with old versions again:\n\ncp .git/info/sparse-checkout sparse-checkout.saved\necho '*' > .git/info/sparse-checkout\ngit checkout\n\nIf it does not work, removing the index (.git/index) would do the trick.\n-- \nDuy\n"},{"id":"136506","messageId":"0887243A-1CD5-4905-A9FE-46DBEF7F139E@ee.ethz.ch","threadId":"22975","inReplyTo":"fcaeb9bf1003100410j15ebd863ta4a2b817b28ac0f6@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Unknown index entry format 40000000","fromName":"Benedikt Andreas Koeppel","fromEmail":"bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch","sentAt":"2010-03-10T13:00:42Z","receivedAt":"2010-03-10T13:00:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch","avatar":null},"body":"Hello\n\n\nAm 10.03.2010 um 13:10 schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:\n>> fatal: Unknown index entry format 40000000\n>> \n>> I have git version 1.7.0.2, Mac OS X 10.6.2 on HFS+ case-*in*sensitive.\n>> \n\n> means git does not understand flag 0x40000000. Git 1.7.0.2 should\n> understand that bit. I can only guess that \"git pull\" is from older\n> version, or it ran a git command from older build. Do you have two\n> versions of git on that machine?\n\nYep, removing version 1.6 and re-installing 1.7.0.2 solved the problem.\n\nThank you very much. Best Regards,\nBenedikt Köppel\n"}]}