Making git ignore file mode

andrewmemoryblog@gmail.com (Andrew's Memory Blog) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:45:39 -0700

I have recently had to run git on Windows, and things there get all weird because by default git uses file mode as part of its comparison. Because of this, files whose mode have changed show up as different.

Luckily, git has a way around this:

git config core.filemode false

Nice!

Resolving git error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename

andrewmemoryblog@gmail.com (Andrew's Memory Blog) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:59:22 -0700

I’m just starting to use git for source control. Tonight I got an error when I tried to commit:

$ git add ./foo/bar/
error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename .git/objects/95: File exists
error: foo/bar/baz: failed to insert into database

Luckily, someone else ran into this before me. The magic incantation:

git fsck
git prune
git repack
git fsck

and then I was able to add my files.

I ran into another case where this didn’t help. In that instance,

git gc

was able to get me committing again.

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Making git ignore file mode

Resolving git error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename