How to handle git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error?

git, git-fetch, git-gc, git-remote

Solution

I don't understand the ramifications of this, but as suggested in this thread, when I encountered this I just did

$ mv .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD /tmp

(keeping it around just in case) and then

$ git gc

worked without complaining; I haven't run into any problems.

Problem

I randomly hit this today while trying to run Git garbage collect: ``` $ git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error: failed to run repack ``` How do I deal with this?

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