fatal: bad object HEAD

fatal: bad object HEAD

[Rostislav Svoboda]

Hi people, I have a BIG trouble:

$ git fsck
error: refs/heads/branch_1 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/branch_2 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/branch_3 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
(and quite many missing and dangling blobs)

I use msysGit 1.6.1-preview20081227 and I did:
$ git checkout master
$ git gui

here I got again and again that stupid error message
'file fname.ext has been modified but no changes detected' so I did
$ git add fname.ext
$ git branch branch_1    (here I did a mistake. I wanted to do 'git
checkout branch_1' )

And now is _everything_ seems to be lost... uaaaa :( What can I do now?
Any would be REALLY appreciated

Bost

Re: fatal: bad object HEAD

[Rostislav Svoboda]

I tried

$ git fsck --verbose
Checking tree fe217057862c74e6c1a0cf12e39b941f967927b2
Checking blob fe56c41c028f320bb474ca9e0fe15baa2b0aa122
Checking blob fe7c85910717d546ee002bb64a9d1476a9451eed
error: refs/heads/branch_1 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/branch_2 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/branch_3 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/branch_4 does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
Checking reflog
3d7d1cf8f8edae21d90be9d84c21b5ac65ee94dc->9e53015709777b533717b25687295407f38f840e
Checking reflog
9e53015709777b533717b25687295407f38f840e->695e934882e78fb85b78649dea5109aa69855a88
...

and deeper in the output there are 4 suspicious entries:
Checking reflog
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000->696bd2fc4a8554891976af42e65ccaf9d12009ac
Checking reflog
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000->aff44ac2a61607dd95caadd896e2cae51e4dfdcf
Checking reflog
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000->6f20af9bcc1f446116cc1af238cb849ca1ccd385
Checking reflog
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000->696bd2fc4a8554891976af42e65ccaf9d12009ac

I think here might the problem. Can anyone explain me what it means? thx a lot

Bost


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 17:55, Rostislav Svoboda
<rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi people, I have a BIG trouble:
>
> $ git fsck
> error: refs/heads/branch_1 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/heads/branch_2 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/heads/branch_3 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
> (and quite many missing and dangling blobs)
>
> I use msysGit 1.6.1-preview20081227 and I did:
> $ git checkout master
> $ git gui
>
> here I got again and again that stupid error message
> 'file fname.ext has been modified but no changes detected' so I did
> $ git add fname.ext
> $ git branch branch_1    (here I did a mistake. I wanted to do 'git
> checkout branch_1' )
>
> And now is _everything_ seems to be lost... uaaaa :( What can I do now?
> Any would be REALLY appreciated
>
> Bost
>