Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:16:48 -0800

"R. Tyler Ballance" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Unfortunately it doesn't, what I did notice was this when I did a `git
> status` in the directory right after untarring:
>         tyler@grapefruit:~/jburgess_main> git status
>         #
>         # ---impressive amount of file names fly by---
>         # ----snip---
> ...
> Basically, somehow Git thinks that *every* file in the repository is
> deleted at this point.

That makes me suspect that your .git/index file is corrupt.