git status shows fatal bad object HEAD

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I have a problem with git on Windows Azure  Git status shows -  fatal  bad object HEAD  and I tried running    git fsck --full  git gc   But  git fsck shows   broken link from  commit 739df633f185ce5d1ab7eb97d619b28e7d81185a               to    tree 2a6d4876d135c1fa7cbe1348c62570006e895fc5 broken link from  commit 9c7eae5ffed34dbfac977e515dee675626b59f93               to    tree 400132d215ab9aced883a9971e648b82624b2032 broken link from  commit 9c7eae5ffed34dbfac977e515dee675626b59f93               to  commit 4a49af0a0cb64a0a0415734b11772d6df18561fb broken link from  commit bc3072f30e71c616a8196089e19a67a2c9c0a5ad               to    tree 0aa813c183487d0a1b1f7ae81501ca7a1168283f broken link from  commit d3bb4f8545e91ec8ace15ad31a3147d92a1d4242               to    tree 4682108accd8e72fe68858232386dffe60f9f02d broken link from  commit 6b34795c4b54286301bcdc0ed254a04c132cb2ad               to    tree 5c57dd3222d11924dba841d3cae517bdc9220601 broken link from  commit d70172d855391b93bc1c5eeb9b4226df525dfc6e               to  commit 390c8cbd527c8e707c51e25142e54421f4dd3948 broken link from  commit cc05e8d2e3733693ebb67d697ae4b65e51fea79a               to  commit 32f081f8b901425fd1e8898478f0551970bee0f5 broken link from    tree 6a75ed6d0311d800078e77f43d427d128372d5bc               to    blob 4a064d610c0e7207967d59934c8bc5f491f26dae broken link from    tree 6a75ed6d0311d800078e77f43d427d128372d5bc               to    tree 5c06ec964dcbade49287d0f36efe1f7b60f446e3 broken link from    tree b4855fa6734b5652a93a9b799eafe47fad0d13a0               to    blob 3e1fb421613dc9066cbf9c95eddc61619a9f8eed broken link from    tree b4855fa6734b5652a93a9b799eafe47fad0d13a0               to    tree 556a50048d42346c283c94b78ea278ba1d57d251 broken link from    tree 289c03409370c4ca7c12266ce2822a2976bd032b               to    blob 3abf3c48ada45f63404dcf4d675ddfdadcfa83c6 broken link from    tree 289c03409370c4ca7c12266ce2822a2976bd032b               to    blob 3fa569892003b468ed1301426dd6d96d9644be3c broken link from    tree 289c03409370c4ca7c12266ce2822a2976bd032b               to    blob 0a9a54a51e84f3bc34122dbce1146d895fcbe22c broken link from    tree 289c03409370c4ca7c12266ce2822a2976bd032b               to    blob 3fa48873564361b4d95830803ae77f79eeafaf5b   git branch shows -  master

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Your repository is broken  But you can probably fix it AND keep your edits    Back up first  cp your repository your repositry bak Clone the broken repository  still works   git clone your repository your repository clone Replace the broken  git folder with the one from the clone  rm -rf your repository  git  amp  amp  cp your repository clone  git your repository  -r Delete clone  amp  backup  if everything is fine   rm -r your repository

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This happened because by mistake I removed some core file of GIT  Try this its worked for me    re-initialize git   git init   fetch data from remote   git fetch   Now check all your changes and git status by  git status

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In my case the error came out of nowhere  but didn t let me push to the remote branch   git fetch origin   And that solved it   I agree this may not solve the issue for everyone  but before trying a more complex approach give it a shot at this one  nothing to loose

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try this   worked for me  rm -rf  git  You can use mv instead of rm if you don t want to loose your stashed commits then copy  git from other clone  cp  lt pathofotherrepository gt   git   -r then do  git init  this should solve your problem    ALL THE BEST

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This is unlikely to be the source of your problem - but if you happen to be working in  NET you ll end up with a bunch of obj  folders  Sometimes it is helpful to delete all of these obj  folders in order to resolve a pesky build issue   I received the same fatal  bad object HEAD on my current branch  master  and was unable to run git status or to checkout any other branch  I always got an error refs remote  branch  does not point to a valid object    If you want to delete all of your obj folders  don t get lazy and allow  git objects into the mix  That folder is where all of the actual contents of your git commits go   After being close to giving up I decided to look at which files were in my recycle bin  and there it was  Restored the file and my local repository was like new

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Your repository is corrupt  That means data is lost that cannot be recovered by git itself  If you have another clone of this repository  you can recover the objects from there  or make a new clone   fatal  bad object HEAD means the branch referenced from HEAD is pointing to a bad commit object  which can mean it s missing or corrupt   From the output of git fsck  you can see there are a few tree  blob and commit objects missing    Note that using git itself is not enough to keep data safe  You still need to back it up in cases of corruption

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I solved this by renaming the branch in the file  git refs remotes origin HEAD

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Make a copy of your git dir in your local host and run git init there once again  Push the project to a brand new reprository

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Running   git remote set-head origin --auto   followed by   git gc

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I managed to fix a similar problem to this when some of git s files were corrupted   https   stackoverflow com a 30871926 1737957  In my answer on that question  look for the part where I had the same error message as here    fatal  bad object HEAD    You could try following what I did from that point on  Make sure to back up the whole folder first   Of course  your repository might be corrupted in a completely different way  and what I did won t solve your problem  But it might give you some ideas  Git internals seem like magic  but it s really just a bunch of files which can be edited  moved  deleted the same as any others  Once you have a good idea of what they do and how they fit together you have a good chance of success

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I had a similar problem and what worked for me was to make a new clone from my original repository

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I solved this by copying the branch data  with the errors  to my apple laptop local git folder    Somehow in the terminal and when running   git status  tells me more specific data where the error occurs  If you look under the errors  hopefully you see a list of folders with error  In my case GIT showed the folder which was responsible for the error  Deleting that folder and commiting the branche  I succeeded  git status was working again the other devices updating by git pull  everything working again on every machine   Hopefully this will work for you also

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This happened to me on a old simple project without branches  I made a lot of changes and when I was done  I couldn t commit  Nothing above worked so I ended up with     Copied all the code with my latest changes to a Backup-folder  Git clone to download the latest working code along with the working  git folder  Copied my code with latest changes from the backup and replaced the cloned code  not the  git folder    git add and commit works again and I have all my recent changes

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I solved this by doing git fetch  My error was because I moved my file from my main storage to my secondary storage on windows 10

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