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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.

Vampire
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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.

Lavock
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Were you able to spot the .git folder manually by going into your repository? you can try running below command to possibly get more information?

git fsck --full
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just try to rename your_project/.git/index file

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I had another .git folder in my subfolder, therefore, causing the error. I would remove the .git subfolder and then remove the cached folder you were looking to commit: git rm --cached subfoldername

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