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+Bugfix: rebuild-index failed if an index file was damaged
+
+The `rebuild-index` command failed with an error if an index file was damaged
+or truncated. This has been fixed. A (slow) workaround is to use
+`rebuild-index --read-all-packs` or to manually delete the damaged index.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3488