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I have a project with a submodule. When trying to merge a branch (named release) into master, git identified some conflicts and raised the following error:
Fast-forwarding submodule path/to/submodule
Auto-merging path/to/submodule
error: add_cacheinfo failed to refresh for path 'path/to/submodule'; merge aborting.
It completely stopped the merge, as no evidence of it is shown with git status, although I can see some files from the branch release. If I run git merge --abort it also complains with:
fatal: There is no merge to abort (MERGE_HEAD missing).
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error: add_cacheinfo failed to refresh for path 'a/b/c'; merge aborting. To fix this, first clean the leftovers of the aborted merge from the working directory with git stash && git clean -fd Then, checkout the offending file(s) and commit them to the target branch before the merge:
1 add_cacheinfo failed for path ...is an internal error and should not occur. Either something inside Git is broken, or something inside your computer itself is broken / failing. If the problem persists on a different computer, that would suggest it's a bug in whatever version of Git you're using; you could try using a different version of Git.
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First I had to reset my branch master with:
git reset --hard origin/master
and delete any files that stayed from the aborted merge (files that came from the release).
After, I updated the submodule to the latest version in both branches, with:
git submodule update --recursive --remote
After that I was able to run the merge without further problems with add_cacheinfo.
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