Re: "git commit" fails due to spurious file in index

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mar 4, 2013, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <87y5e2op9p.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <2D9BD788B02ABA478C57929170AF952B7622B5@EXCH-MBX-3.epic.com>

Robert Irelan <rirelan@epic.com> writes:

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> Now, when I run 'git add admin_script/setup' to add the new directory to
> the repo and then try to commit, I receive the following message:
>
>     $ git commit
>     mv: cannot stat `admin_scripts/setup/2012/setup': No such file or directory
>
> The error message is correct in that `admin_scripts/setup/2012/setup`
> does not exist, either as a file or as a directory. However, I'm not
> attempting to add this path at all. Using grep, I've confirmed that the
> only place this path appears in any of my files is in `.git/index`.

To me that sounds like the message comes from a commit hook. Can you check if you have anything in .git/hooks/, especially pre-commit?

There really isn't any other good reason why 'git commit' would call 'mv' (plain mv, not git!).

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch