Re: Git rebase -i failing on cygwin -- git checkout-index says File Exists

From: Ludvig Strigeus <strigeus@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4285cd450901201420l8929dci25688dc9723c917a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901202212470.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi!

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Having said that, I often had that case with interactive rebase, because
> I had an untracked file lying around (in your case util/stringfuncs.cpp)
> that was tracked in the version I was trying to rebase onto, but it
> stopped right there, even on msysGit.

util/stringfuncs.cpp is not an untracked file, though. It's a part of my repo. Also 'git status' shows that no files are modified. If it was an untracked file, 'git status' would have said so.

>
> Hopefully you can investigate the scenario more, by "git rebase --abort",
> and then running the rebase -i again, but with GIT_TRACE=1.
>

Here is the trace output. Notice how it prints errors about two files this time.

$ GIT_TRACE=1 git rebase -i 4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c trace: exec: 'git-rebase' '-i' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--is-inside-work-tree' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--show-cdup' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--parseopt' '--' '-i' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--show-cdup' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--is-inside-work-tree' trace: exec: 'git-var' 'GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'HEAD' trace: built-in: git 'update-index' '--ignore-submodules' '--refresh' trace: built-in: git 'diff-files' '--quiet' '--ignore-submodules' trace: built-in: git 'diff-index' '--cached' '--quiet' 'HEAD' '--ignore-submodules' '--' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'HEAD' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--short' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--short' '7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--short' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c' trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--no-merges' '--cherry-pick' '--pretty=oneline' '--abbrev-commit' '--abbrev=7' '--rever se' '--left-right' '--topo-order' '4a1552c81b622f85b0e9170c6fd7a22b4a3e633c...7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184' trace: built-in: git 'update-ref' 'ORIG_HEAD' '7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' '4965936^' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'HEAD' trace: built-in: git 'reset' '--hard' '4965936' trace: run_command: 'read-tree' '-v' '-u' '--reset' '49659367ed932a691749fb4c6b93e38b2a85e9e1' trace: exec: 'git' 'read-tree' '-v' '-u' '--reset' '49659367ed932a691749fb4c6b93e38b2a85e9e1' trace: built-in: git 'read-tree' '-v' '-u' '--reset' '49659367ed932a691749fb4c6b93e38b2a85e9e1' error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/boink_unittest.cpp (File exists) error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/stringfuncs.cpp (File exists) fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '4965936'. trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--short' '4965936' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'd9c7ac9^' trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'HEAD' trace: built-in: git 'cherry-pick' 'd9c7ac9' error: Entry 'util/boink-py.cc' not uptodate. Cannot merge. fatal: merging of trees 0c27b10e163f00655486976896d096302b0f5c21 and 7c7dfd93d678cfc564649738d45260e0b5d9f5a7 failed trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--parents' '-1' 'd9c7ac9' trace: built-in: git 'diff-tree' '-p' 'd9c7ac9^'\!'' trace: built-in: git 'cat-file' 'commit' 'd9c7ac9' trace: built-in: git 'config' 'i18n.commitencoding' trace: built-in: git 'show' '-s' '--pretty=raw' '--encoding=UTF-8' 'd9c7ac9' '--' trace: built-in: git 'rerere' Could not apply d9c7ac9... Various reorganizations.

It doesn't really tell me much.

Maybe this command log is useful. I got this while aborting the rebase. Looks like some file creation race condition? Windows doesn't allow files to be deleted while they're open.

$ git rebase --abort error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/boink_unittest.cpp (File exists) fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184'.

$ git rebase --abort error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/stringfuncs.h (File exists) fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184'.

$ git rebase --abort error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/boink_unittest.cpp (File exists) error: git checkout-index: unable to create file util/common.h (Permission denied) fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '7a70781d089d98f0de606515d1041230cef9b184'.

$ git rebase --abort

(this time it worked)

Thanks, Ludde