From: Benedikt Andreas Koeppel <bkoeppel@ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:45:04 GMT
Subject: Unknown index entry format 40000000
Message-ID: <9EE6DBC4-B025-48A1-B475-433DE5918F39@ee.ethz.ch>

Hello,

I've set core.sparseCheckout true and added a .git/info/sparse-checkout file:
*
!source/crn/
!source/maemo-beagle/
!source/maemo-kernel/
!source/u-boot/

After that, I did
git co -- .
git reset --hard HEAD

Now, I want to do
git pull
but I get an error:

beninb:git beni$ git pull -v
From gmuasch:ife-maemo
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
fatal: Unknown index entry format 40000000

I have git version 1.7.0.2, Mac OS X 10.6.2 on HFS+ case-*in*sensitive.

I found that this error comes from read-cache.c, line 1235. What does this error message mean? How can I make my repo working again?



Thanks and Best Regards,
Benedikt Köppel