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 > -----Original Message----- > From: jch2355@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jch2355@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Junio C > Hamano > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:20 > To: McHenry, Matt > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: recovering from "unordered stage entries in index" error > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:48 AM, McHenry, Matt > <mmchenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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)? ��.n��������+%������w��{.n��������n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�