From: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:46:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn dying unceremoniously
Message-ID: <BANLkTinnRwas8VSn4p+NRvrwxnVSwBRc1Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikeCagEiN_xU4B+TE=-9esQjWh0pw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
> I managed to get a lot farther with
>
>   while ! git svn fetch ; do sleep 1 ; done
>
> But eventually I exceeded my disk quota:
>
> error: bad index file sha1 signature
> fatal: index file corrupt
> write-tree: command returned error: 128
>

I've run into this in my git-svn clones as well. It happened once last
year. I tried this trick I found googling around:

rm -f .git/index
git read-tree --reset HEAD
git status

.. but it didn't help. I ended up re-doing the git svn clone. Since
then it has worked fine.