New git user. After "git init", I added and committed a few files. Made some changes, added and committed. Set up the git daemon (running under Cygwin on WinXP) and cloned the repository once. Now, I get this error with the cloned repository:
$ git status
error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt
Is there any way to fix this, other than getting a new copy of the repository? Thanks.
This sounds like a bad clone. You could try the following to get (possibly?) more information:
git fsck --full
You can simply remove the index
$ rm -f .git/index
(make a backup copy if you want), and then restore index to version in the last commit:
$ git reset
(which is shortcut for "git reset --mixed HEAD"). Or you can use lower level (plumbing) 'git read-tree' instead of 'git reset'.
If the problem is with index for packfile, you can recover it using 'git index-pack'.