Why do I get “fatal: git status --porcelain failed”?

Question

This is a huge pain in the bum. I\'ve got this a few times before and I don\'t understand why. 5 mins ago the repo was fine and working, I move some files around (which is a

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread, but I just had the same problem and ended up solving in a different way. The git init didin't work for me. Posting here, in case it's useful to anyone else.

My repository has two submodules. After rebasing I started getting the error fatal: git status --porcelain failed.

The solution was to verify the property worktree in every submodule config file - e.g. /.git/modules//config.

I had one invalid path for the worktree property. It was linking to an unexisting folder that was changed and merged to master - probably due an error resolving conflicts.