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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:50:37+00:00

I tried to run git push and got a corruption error: % git push

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I tried to run git push and got a corruption error:

% git push
Counting objects: 62, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
error: corrupt loose object 'f2310668fe335b36c513e50fcd99744e8fd5c2e0'
fatal: object f2310668fe335b36c513e50fcd99744e8fd5c2e0 is corrupted
error: pack-objects died with strange error

This hangs on the last line until I hit Ctrl+C.

I read that running git gc might help, so I did that and got a similar error:

% git gc
Counting objects: 493, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
error: corrupt loose object 'f2310668fe335b36c513e50fcd99744e8fd5c2e0'
fatal: object f2310668fe335b36c513e50fcd99744e8fd5c2e0 is corrupted
error: failed to run repack

What should I do to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Clone a backup of your repository. If the corrupted object id is $OBJECTID, do this:

    In new repository:

    git cat-file -t $OBJECTID > object-type
git cat-file $(cat object-type) $OBJECTID > object-contents

    Move those two new files to the old repository

    In corrupt repository, move away your corrupt object:

    mv .git/objects/XX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .
git hash-object -t $(cat object-type) -w object-contents

    This should write the object into git’s database, and output $OBJECTID to STDOUT. If it outputs some other SHA1 id, you have made a mistake and you should delete that wrong object.

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