On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 4:49:43 PM UTC+1, kumar wrote: > hi > > in windows using git GUI when i tried to do git add for 200,000 files > (18GB) it took about 5hr is that normal after which i got the below error? > > Updating the Git index failed. A rescan will be automatically started to > resynchronize git-gui. > with lots of this warning > warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in > > I clicked on Continue. > > will it be ok? >
You probably want to instruct Git to leave line-endings alone first, as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10573815/why-is-updating-the-git-index-failed-displayed --
