RE: "git commit" fails due to spurious file in index

Nope, it was a bug in my pre-commit hook. See the other response to this message. Robert Irelan | Server Systems | Epic | (608) 271-9000 -Original Message- From: Torsten Bögershausen [mailto:tbo...@web.de] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:41 AM To: Robert Irelan Cc: git@vger.kernel.org

RE: "git commit" fails due to spurious file in index

hich I had not previously committed to this repo, which is why I only ran into the problem now. I fixed it by changing the read command to `read -r -d '' f`, which now has the crucial space between -d and its argument, making the zero-length string a separate argument. Robert Ir

"git commit" fails due to spurious file in index

mmit manually. This is how I've worked around the problem for now, and I've moved the repository that's exhibiting problems to another directory and started work on the cloned copy. Why is this spurious path appearing in the index? Is it a bug, or a symptom that my repo has been someh