Hi, Аccidentally my colleague created a file in the root dir of the git repo called - (just dash). As result for every commit having this file, diff , merge, cherry-pick maybe others just hang. I tried to make rebase interactive to edit the commit and remove the file but that fails too. system: Fedora Linux 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 git version: 1.7.7.6 How to reproduce the bug: 1. create a file named - 2. add the file in the index and commit 3. try diff with another commit, branch So far i found following workarounds: 1. You can delete the file. Then the problem stays in the history only for the commits that have the file. 2. Use git filter-branch and deleted the file from the history. git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch -- -" <problem commit>..HEAD But this changes the history. Thanks for your work. Regards, Daniel Lyubomirov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html