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Create and Parse Index Failures

#1

I’m in need of some troubleshooting advice with Sublime Merge suddenly not being able to fully create a new repo’s .git folder contents successfully and also not being able to parse an existing repo’s .git folder contents, specifically the index file. I’ve only started looking into this yesterday afternoon when I became aware of it, but I was using Sublime Merge on this computer some months ago without failure. I did update Sublime Merge to Build 2110 yesterday before the errors began, but then fully uninstalled and re-installed the older version Build 2102 only to witness the same errors so not sure where to go with troubleshooting at the moment.

I’ve been working without Sublime Merge with Git Bash CLI for the time being without fail. Looking for suggestions to try.

A few things I have done so far:

  • Downgraded to Build 2102, tested, recreated error, then upgraded again back to Build 2110.
  • Switched from System Git to Built-In Git, errors were recreated with both.
  • Updated system installed Git for Windows to latest. Retested again with Sublime Merge, errors recreated.
  • Used the portable version of Sublime Merge. Errors recreated.
  • Disabled Malwarebytes completely and retested with errors recreated.
  • Clone new repo from Gitea, GitHub, or GitLab with same result.

Here’s some output captured from the Sublime Terminal showing some details.

Existing Repo

    DPI mode: per-monitor v2
    startup, version: 2110 windows x64
    executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge/sublime_merge.exe
    application: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge
    working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge
    packages path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Packages
    state path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Local
    zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge/Packages
    zip path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
    zip path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Installed Packages
    ignored_packages: ["Vintage"]
    generating syntax summary
    error parsing lexer: Packages/PHP/Embeddings/Diff (for PHP Interpolated).sublime-syntax: unable to read base syntax "Packages/Diff/Diff.sublime-syntax" at line 7 column 10
    error parsing lexer: Packages/Git Formats/Git Diff.sublime-syntax: unable to read base syntax "Packages/Diff/Diff (Basic).sublime-syntax" at line 10 column 10
    pre session restore time: 1.26397
    OpenGL Context Information:
      GL API Version: 4.6.13596 Compatibility Profile Context 20.10.32.06 27.20.11032.6002
      GLSL Version: 4.60
      Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
      Renderer: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
    loading dictionary Packages/Language - English/en_US.dic
    loading repo /C/Users/User/Documents/LocalRepo/somefolder/somerepo/.git
    first paint time: 1.58597
    head changed to 0c13b5c6c13a87619c58dca6429df8c12a98fd4c
    failed to build index table

Existing Repo’s .git folder contents

    hooks
    info
    logs
    objects
    refs
    COMMIT_EDITMSG
    config
    description
    FETCH_HEAD
    HEAD
    index
    ORIG_HEAD
    packed-refs

New Repo Created With Sublime Merge

    DPI mode: per-monitor v2
    startup, version: 2110 windows x64
    executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge/sublime_merge.exe
    application: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge
    working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge
    packages path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Packages
    state path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Local
    zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Merge/Packages
    zip path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
    zip path: /C/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Merge/Installed Packages
    ignored_packages: ["Vintage"]
    pre session restore time: 0.137132
    OpenGL Context Information:
      GL API Version: 4.6.13596 Compatibility Profile Context 20.10.32.06 27.20.11032.6002
      GLSL Version: 4.60
      Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
      Renderer: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
    loading dictionary Packages/Language - English/en_US.dic
    first paint time: 0.450132
    Executing: "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" init
    Working dir: C:\Users\User\Desktop\WholeNewRepo
    loading repo /C/Users/User/Desktop/WholeNewRepo/.git
    unable to open index: Unable to open index: CreateFile failed at sgit::open_index: sgit/index.cc:17

Folder contents of .git in new repo

    hooks
    info
    objects
    refs
    config
    description
    HEAD
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#2

Upgrading Sublime Merge shouldn’t affect Sublime Text’s ability to read the git index, although they use the same custom git library which sublimehq invented. Did you try ST in Safe Mode?
I guess as Sublime Merge won’t load the repository the debug information in the Help menu is not accessible?
Maybe something changed in the index format ?
Maybe playing around with https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index/2.6.7 could help?

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