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I just upgraded to OSX Lion on my Mac and I aquired a strange problem with a git repo. I have my .vim files under version control with a number of plugins configured as git submodules. After upgrading, I ran a git status command into my .vim directory and got the following:

fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed fatal: git status --porcelain failed

Does anyone know what my problem is? I searched the above error message on Google and SO, but I didn't find any answers. I've also noticed that git seems to be very slow now. Also, I have no other problems in other git repos (expect the slowness problem), which makes me think the problem is not related to Lion. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can fix my .vim repo? Thanks in advance for the help.

Here is some of the trace output requested by drizzd:

setup: worktree: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/supertab setup: cwd: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/supertab setup: prefix: (null) trace: built-in: git 'status' '--porcelain' trace: run_command: 'status' '--porcelain' trace: exec: 'git' 'status' '--porcelain' setup: git_dir: .git setup: worktree: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/surround setup: cwd: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/surround setup: prefix: (null) trace: built-in: git 'status' '--porcelain' trace: run_command: 'status' '--porcelain' trace: exec: 'git' 'status' '--porcelain' setup: git_dir: .git setup: worktree: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/tasklist setup: cwd: /Users/sbrown/.vim/bundle/tasklist setup: prefix: (null) trace: built-in: git 'status' '--porcelain' trace: run_command: 'status' '--porcelain' trace: exec: 'git' 'status' '--porcelain' setup: git_dir: .git setup: worktree: /Users/sbrown/.vim setup: cwd: /Users/sbrown/.vim setup: prefix: bundle/vim-colors-solarized/ trace: built-in: git 'status' '--porcelain' trace: run_command: 'status' '--porcelain' trace: exec: 'git' 'status' '--porcelain'
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    You mean stackoverflow.com/questions/5456683/… didn't help? Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 19:12
  • And the slowness might be explained by some git bash prompt configuration side-effet (superuser.com/questions/31744/…) Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 19:16
  • Thanks for the help. I am still not entirely clear though. Are there aberrant .git files sprinkled though my submodules? I took a look and I didn't see any such files in two or three submodules. Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 19:48
  • sure, I was only referring to those questions to check if they could give you any lead. Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 19:54
  • Hmmm, all my submodules do have .git directories. Does git put .git directories in each submodule or is this my problem? Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 20:29

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For future reference, the only way I could correct the problem was to remove all submodules and then reinstall them.

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Worked here. rm the submodule(s), and the run git submodule init and git submodule update.
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In case it helps anyone else, I just encountered the same issue and found that running git init in the project root fixed it.

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Your git-project (or at least one of your submodules, if you have some) became corrupted. This means that some of the files in your .git-folder(s) are corrupt or missing.

Fix git-repo

As Jordan mentioned: Go to your root and run git init. Then try git status again.

Fix submodules

If this doesn't work, navigate to your submodule-folder(s) and try git init again. Go back to root and run git status.

Why is it broken?

One answer could be, that there are problems with the access-permissions. Maybe you're working with several users on the working copy?

Another answer could be some kind of sync-software like OwnCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or like in my case BitTorrent Sync. My working copies are located in the sync-folder, which is synced between my computer at work and at home. This causes some issues with permissions.

Hope it helps.

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