Re: Recover broken git repository?

From: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Date: Jul 14, 2009, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20090714175245.GD9919@scotty.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907141019380.13838@localhost.localdomain>

Also sprach Linus Torvalds am Tue, 14 Jul 2009 at 10:33:58 -0700:

Hi,

> > $ git commit -m "Some message"
> > error: invalid object 1086b1c606a04bcb78b92d1d411a299d20d18034
> > fatal: Error building trees

I've trapped in a similar problem few days ago on windows using cygwin.

A simple "git status" told me an invalid object. Just doing git status corrupted the index file and only this. The reason was a wrong configured (unseen reconfigured from another script) mount via cygwin using "textmode" not "binary mode".

After remounting with "binary mode" a simple "git read-tree HEAD" repaired it. Just the index file had been corrupted.

Stefan

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