From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 00:17:50 GMT
Subject: Re: recovering from "unordered stage entries in index" error
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Bdx5tto0w1q7rZ1ORx8RmHZCEKPyBqYs37k=YvbO3kzA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwq01kh8r.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This message can be improved to show what entries have this problem.
>> But then I don't see any way to recover the index manually. ls-files
>> will die too.
>
> Isn't this failure coming from git-svn that tries to write out a
> tree after it prepared whatever it wants to record in its (possibly
> temporary) index?  I have a feeling that the index held by the end
> user is not broken.

Ahh that would explain why ls-files works. Yep.
-- 
Duy