Re: git-stash fails on OSX 10.5

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2009, 17:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6u8whbp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <be4ebbe10904100944p6ec2c0dao8607fcff75d2754e@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> writes:

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> Hi folks --
>
> I'm stumped; git-stash simply won't work on my machine. On any
> repository I've tried, with various permutations, I keep getting::
>
>     $ git stash
>     cp: `.../.git/index': No such file or directory
>     Cannot save the current worktree state

Are you exporting

	GIT_INDEX_FILE=.../.git/index

into the environment, and that path perhaps does not exist?

Otherwise the above error message wouldn't have said ".../.git/index"; it is coming from the only invocation of "cp" command in git-stash.sh