From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:16:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file
Message-ID: <7vaba3bken.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1231314099.8870.415.camel@starfruit>

"R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@slide.com> writes:

> Unfortunately it doesn't, what I did notice was this when I did a `git
> status` in the directory right after untarring:
>         tyler@grapefruit:~/jburgess_main> git status
>         #
>         # ---impressive amount of file names fly by---
>         # ----snip---
> ...
> Basically, somehow Git thinks that *every* file in the repository is
> deleted at this point.

That makes me suspect that your .git/index file is corrupt.