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?
If the problem is with the index as the staging area for commits (i.e. .git/index), you can simply remove the index (make a backup copy if you want), and then restore index to version in the last commit:
On OSX/Linux:
rm -f .git/index
git reset
On Windows:
del .git\index
git reset
(The reset command above is the same as git reset --mixed HEAD)
You can alternatively 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.
You may have accidentally corrupted the .git/index file with a sed on your project root (refactoring perhaps?) with something like:
sed -ri -e "s/$SEACHPATTERN/$REPLACEMENTTEXT/g" $(grep -Elr "$SEARCHPATERN" "$PROJECTROOT")
to avoid this in the future, just ignore binary files with your grep/sed:
sed -ri -e "s/$SEACHPATTERN/$REPLACEMENTTEXT/g" $(grep -Elr --binary-files=without-match "$SEARCHPATERN" "$PROJECTROOT")
This sounds like a bad clone. You could try the following to get (possibly?) more information:
git fsck --full
I had that problem, and I try ti fix with this:
rm -f .git/index
git reset
BUT it did not work. The solution?
For some reason I had others .git folders in sub directories. I delete those .git folders (not the principal) and git reset again. Once they were deleted, everything worked again.
This worked for me. Although i'm curious of the reason I started getting the errors in the first place. When I logged out yesterday, it was fine. Log in this morning, it wasn't.
rm .git/index
git reset
Since the above solutions left me with continued problems, I used this dull solution:
- clone a new copy of the repo elsewhere
- copy the fresh .git directory into the (broken) repo that contained the changes I wanted to commit
Did the trick. Btw, I did a sed on the project root as @hobs guessed. Learned my lesson.
Note for git submodule users - the solutions here will not work for you as-is.
Let's say you have a parent repository called dev, for example, and your submodule repository is called api.
if you are inside of api and you get the error mentioned in this question:
error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt
The index file will NOT be inside of a .git folder. In fact, the .git won't even be a folder - it will will be a text document with the location of the real .git data for this repository. Likely something like this:
~/dev/api $ cat .git
gitdir: ../.git/modules/api
So, instead of rm -f .git/index, you will need to do this:
rm -f ../.git/modules/api/index
git reset
or, more generally,
rm -f ../.git/modules/INSERT_YOUR_REPO_NAME_HERE/index
git reset
This issue can occur when there is a .git directory underneath one of the subdirectories. To fix it, check if there are other .git directories there, and remove them and try again.
I was facing same problem Rename index file in .git/index and then git reset work for me.
rm -f .git/index
git reset
More info at https://www.chris-shaw.com/blog/quick-fix-for-git-corrupt-index
This is ridiculous but I just have rebooted my machine (mac) and the problem was gone like it has never happened. I hate to sound like a support guy...
You can also try for restore to previous version of the file (if you are using windows os)
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1115854/how-to-resolve-error-bad-index-fatal-index-file-corrupt-when-using-git