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Nov 242012
 

Fix git's fatal: index file corrupt

Answer:

When you experienced when your git repository might return the following error when you perform the status command, e.g.

# git status
error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt

To fix it, simply type

# rm -f .git/index

Then

# git reset

That's it.