Failed to lock refs/heads/master
git
Solution
You have to update the HEAD known by git. It will be transparent for you.
Go to `master` branch
git checkout master
Get updates from the remote to your local repository
git fetch
Update your local repository using rebase instead of merge. See there difference between `git pull` and `git rebase`
git rebase origin/master
Push your `master` branch
git push origin master:master
Problem
I am relatively new to git and am facing this problem. The git push command shows the error below. I will explain to you from the beginning what I had been trying to do. I created a submodule, committed, and pushed it. The push throws the error below. ``` Salman@PC_HOME ~/git/breakit-web-app (master) $ git push origin master error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object! Counting objects: 4, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 421 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: bb/acl: salmanmanekia is allowed. accepted payload. error: Ref refs/heads/master is at 6a47a0fd398610a75bdab8976f842dc0efd89f86 but expected 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 remote: error: failed to lock refs/heads/master To ssh://git@bitbucket.org/majuri/breakit-web-app.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (failed to lock) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git@bitbucket.org/majuri/breakit-web-app.git' ``` Here is a screenshot: After that, I tried some solutions, but none of them worked. I will also explain briefly what I have been trying. 1: From the bitbucket repo, I noticed there are some dangling commits (the red arrow in picture 2), so I gave the following commands to solve that git gc and git prune. 2: I also tried commands like git revert HEAD and git push origin HEAD --force, but none seem to work. Other details: ``` $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name master refs/heads/master $ git rev-parse master 0da090c5cbde10ff19602a2722ae05231c30dff5 $ git show-ref master 0da090c5cbde10ff19602a2722ae05231c30dff5 refs/heads/master 6a47a0fd398610a75bdab8976f842dc0efd89f86 refs/remotes/origin/master ``` Thank you