From: Andrew Wong Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:50:16 GMT Subject: Re: rebase: strange failures to apply patc 3-way Message-ID: <513B8468.7070006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <513B8037.7060107@gmail.com> On 03/09/13 13:32, Andrew Wong wrote: > Yea, that's really suspicious. This could mean there's an issue with > when git is checking the index. Try running these a couple times in a > clean work tree: > $ git update-index --refresh > $ git diff-files > > In a clean work tree, these commands should print nothing. But in your > case, these might print random files that git thinks have been modified... Before you run those commands each time, you probably have to "touch" couple files to trigger the issue: $ touch file1 file2 Maybe use touch on the files that git rebase has been reporting error?