Git GC fatal bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error simple fix. How to handle git gc fatal bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error?
Example fix from master
as old branch to main
as new branch
cat .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
Returned:
ref: refs/remotes/origin/master
To fix it, run:
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
I ran this again to double-check:
cat .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
Which returned:
ref: refs/remotes/origin/main
Then git gc
and git prune
worked just fine.
To see what happens I also tried:
git remote set-head origin --auto
Which returned:
origin/HEAD set to main
And it really solves the problem by identifying the ref automatically.