zed-industries/zed · error

Failed to stage: {}

Error message

Failed to stage:
{}

What it means

ensure! guard failing when `git update-index --add --cacheinfo` (staging the freshly hashed blob into the index) exits non-zero. It means the blob SHA produced by hash-object could not be written into the index for the given path — typically a corrupted or locked index, or a SHA/path mismatch.

Source

Thrown at crates/git/src/repository.rs:1664

            .spawn(async move {
                let working_directory = working_directory?;
                let git_binary = git_binary?;
                let output = git_binary
                    .build_command(&["config", "--get", "commit.template"])
                    .output()
                    .await
                    .context("failed to run git config --get commit.template")?;

                let raw_path = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim().to_string();
                if !output.status.success() || raw_path.is_empty() {
                    return Ok(None);
                }

                let path = PathBuf::from(&raw_path);
                let path = if let Some(path) = raw_path.strip_prefix("~/") {
                    paths::home_dir().join(path)
                } else if path.is_relative() {
                    working_directory.join(path)
                } else {
                    path
                };

                let template = match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
                    Ok(s) if !s.trim().is_empty() => Some(s),
                    Err(err) => {
                        log::warn!("failed to read commit template {}: {}", path.display(), err);
                        None
                    }
                    _ => None,
                };

                Ok(template.map(|template| GitCommitTemplate { template }))
            })
            .boxed()
    }

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Solutions

1. Inspect the embedded git stderr for reasons like 'index file smaller than expected' or lock file contention
2. Remove stale .git/index.lock if present and retry
3. Run `git status` to verify index integrity
4. Fall back to a normal `git add` of the path if index manipulation keeps failing

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/git/src/repository.rs:1653 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@5a9b9558db (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/8259c32b599b28d5. Report an issue: GitHub.