I've seen this. Running git gc on Windows, while having Elipse open can kill your object database. Eclipse keeps the pack files open most of the time. Then you launch git gui which recommends the user to do a git gc. I never do (it *always* wants to do this), so I haven't encountered the issue, but if gc doesn't find a new optimal pack it tries to rewrite a new pack with the same id. So it rm's the idx file (fine) and the the pack file (not ok) and gives up, which means it has a .pack file with no index, so it cannot use it. Trying git gc again after eclipse exits will execute the final stab on your objects. The underlying bug is ofcource that Windows locks files when they are open. A *nix* user does not suffer from this problem. I'll investigate more at some other time. This is a preliminary analysis. -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
