From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 02:34:43 GMT Subject: Re: Git revert cannot be aborted if the repository directory has been copied Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Marco Stephan writes: > If you copy a Git repository directory to another path while there is a revert in progress for the Git repository, "git revert --abort" does not work anymore for the copied repository. Instead, it will report an error of the following format: >       error: Entry '...' not uptodate. Cannot merge. >       fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '...'. I wonder if $ git update-index --refresh is all it takes. The symptom, i.e. Git declares that an otherwise unmodifed path is not uptodate, is not limited to "revert" or aborting it, but is a common thing a newbie sees after copyihg a working tree to elsewhere, and "refresh the index" is an often given recovery procedure for such a situation. I'll not comment if this is a bug or not, and let others argue.