I have accidentally (errorneous program running in parallel) run
"git checkout gitweb/web" (where 'gitweb/web' is a branch) on a full
disk. Git correctly notices error, but doesn't recover fully from it.
$ git checkout gitweb/web
fatal: unable to write new index file
It would be nice if git has shown also the error message from filesystem
(from OS), for example if it was full disk, read-only filesystem (for
example wrong mount options, or running from CD), or incorrect
permissions.
$ <free disk space>
$ git checkout gitweb/web
fatal: Entry '.gitignore' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
The '.gitignore' was last file changed in last commit on the page I was
on (namely 'master'). It looks like git didn't recover fully from
attempted branch change. "git diff" and "git status" shows many
modified files, not only '.gitignore'.
What is a bit strange that mixed reset ("git reset HEAD") is not enough
$ git reset HEAD
<multitude of "needs update" messages>
Fortunately, it is easy to recover using "git reset --hard HEAD",
although beginner user could have some problems with this.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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