On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:04:17AM +0100, Luke Diamand wrote: > I've recently started to notice the following being reported: > > % git-status > error: bad index file sha1 signature > fatal: index file corrupt > > (a) Is there anything I can do to fix this (apart from git-clone from > the repo and start over) ? git-fsck reports the same problem. rm -f .git/index should do it. > (b) What is causing it? Is it just my hard disk failing, or is it a bug? > A memory test seems to be OK. > > Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 > File system is XFS > git version 1.5.4.4 You're using XFS. Did you have a power fail in the recent past? -- lfr 0/0
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