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How to resolve “Error: bad index – Fatal: index file corrupt” when using Git-SVN

i'm currently using git svn in one of my repo and when i do

git svn fetch

i got

Found possible branch point: coherent tag ref
Initializing parent: ok stuff

error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt
command returned error: 128

Is ther a way to fix this ? It's a kind of an horrible repo. It take days to synch to that point, i dont want to start from begining :/.

I try the 

rm .git/index

from How to resolve "Error: bad index – Fatal: index file corrupt" when using Git but there is no such file.

Solution

  • The solution was to delete the "index" in the refs svn folder (from the root repo):

    rm .git/svn/refs/{path/to/incriminated/ref}/index

    Then my 

    git svn fetch

    worked again.