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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Problem_when_dropping_unused_files/comment_3_d106a87101db52f957da84d90dafcdbb._comment b/doc/bugs/Problem_when_dropping_unused_files/comment_3_d106a87101db52f957da84d90dafcdbb._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8c739552d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Problem_when_dropping_unused_files/comment_3_d106a87101db52f957da84d90dafcdbb._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="4.154.0.63" + subject="comment 3" + date="2013-08-24T16:04:21Z" + content=""" +Unfortunately, the git error message you pasted suggests very strongly that your git repository has gotten corrupted. You can probably verify that by running `git annex fsck`. Assuming it is corrupted, the best thing to do is to make a new clone and move .git/annex and .git/config over from the corrupted repository to it, and finally run `git annex fsck` + +You then seem to have some reason decided to go delete git-annex's .git/annex/journal/*.log files, which are just files that have not yet been committed to the git-annex branch. The only reason this \"restored some sanity\" is that git-annex was trying to commit that data to git, and failing because your git repository is corrupted. + +(This has nothing at all to do with direct mode.) +"""]] |