Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Another interim report. > > I do not yet know which one of the ~30 individual commmits is the > real culprit, ... It bisects down to c5b761fb ("merge-recursive: ensure we write updates for directory-renamed file", 2018-02-14); given that a part of the symptom I saw was a few messages like these: ... CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in upload-pack.c error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'sha1-name.c' error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'sha1-file.c' Auto-merging sequencer.c ... and the patch does change code around the callsites to add_cacheinfo(), it does look like a plausible culprit.