RE: recovering from "unordered stage entries in index" error

From: McHenry, Matt <mmchenry@carnegielearning.com>
Date: May 19, 2015, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <D377A9280DB18546A2471214D5CBB0E90859942B54@exchdb01>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daUtrfWrVeKMdF5sAA5pt5owkyqoZ-b=BoO=Oms0rYF1ag@mail.gmail.com>

	I had never heard of that.  Google led me to the man page for 'git update-index --split-index', and after reading it, I think this demonstrates that I'm not using that feature:

$ ls .git/*index* .git/index

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jch2355@gmail.com [mailto:jch2355@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Junio C
> Hamano
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:20
> To: McHenry, Matt
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: recovering from "unordered stage entries in index" error
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:48 AM, McHenry, Matt
> <mmchenry@carnegielearning.com> wrote:
> >
> >         I've just upgraded my git from 2.0.5 to 2.3.6, and I'm now
> unable to run 'git svn fetch' in one of my repositories:
> >
> > $ git svn fetch
> > fatal: unordered stage entries in index
> > write-tree: command returned error: 128
> 
> Are you by any chance using the split-index mode (which I think is
> broken in 2.3.6)?