I just upgraded gitfrom 2.0.5to 2.3.6, and now I cannot run git svn fetchin one of my repositories:
$ git svn fetch
fatal: unordered stage entries in index
write-tree: command returned error: 128
git status shows several unsolicited files, but otherwise clean.
I found a change in which this check was introduced, with a summary of " read_index_from (): disable records when reading the index file " (first appearing in 2.2.0), and some discussion of the mailing list that says, among other things:
I think we were discussing how to protect the broken index file on the left with tools written by other people, so I would not be so surprised if our current set of tools does not allow you to recreate certain breakdowns; -)
I don’t remember to run any other tools for this repo; he does not do much day after day, except for a long series of git svn fetches. (But it has been for several years, so who knows.)
Anyway, what can I do to recover from this situation? I tried to find a path with multiple index entries like this, but did not get any results:
$ git ls-files -s | cut -f 2-100 | sort | uniq -c | grep -v '^[ \t]*1 '
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