I was recently working on a project and as I was trying to commit my changes, I saw this error message and I didn't understand why it happened, I decided to investigate why it happened and discovered it was because the index file was corrupt.
The index file gets corrupted due to the following reasons:
- You terminal process was stopped midway
- Your system has run out of disk space
- You used a symlink to the git folder to create directories to use for building in place of svn externals
- Or for some other reason that might not be explained here
To fix it I simply removed the corrupted index file using this command
rm .git/index
Once this has been done, the files can then be re-staged and the error is fixed.
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