Re: git repo being corrupted?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:04:17AM +0100, Luke Diamand wrote:
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> 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.
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> (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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