On Mär 30 2023, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 09:01:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > If it is the same problem (which would be a blob or maybe cached tree >> > missing in one of the worktree's index files), then probably you'd >> > either: >> > >> > 1. Accept the loss and blow away that worktree's index file (or >> > perhaps even the whole worktree, and just recreate it). >> >> Hmm... the problem is "that": I have about a hundred worktrees for >> this repository. >> But yes, I can just throw away all those `index` files, I guess. > > If you try "git fsck" from the tip of master, it should identify the > worktree index that is the source of the problem, I think. You might > need to pass "--name-objects". I had the same problem, and after Junio refreshed my memory by pointing me to this thread, I updated to the brand new git 2.41 and re-ran git fsck. That duely identified problems in two of the worktree indexes (invalid sha1 pointer in resolve-undo). After recreating those indexes there were no more complaints from git gc. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."