Ubuntu
gitg package

  1. Bug #598350
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 598350

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote :

I think you're missing a "git add ." after the symlinking step. Otherwise, I got a still-empty repo. commit -a only adds already tracked files.
Regardless, I can confirm this behaviour. It does not happen when you do it via command-line git.
gitg says
** ERROR **: Update index for stage failed
aborting...
upon crashing.