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Asked: 2026-06-18T00:32:36+00:00

My git repo got corrupted while running a find and replace command (See here:

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My git repo got corrupted while running a find and replace command (See here: Git reset failing after find and replace). So I deleted some pack files about which git told me that there were not reachable. So I ran rm ./.git/index, git reset. When running git commit, I got this message :

fatal: corrupt tree sha $someSHA

Finally git fsck, my working directory went clean and I was able to commit. The pb now is that when I run git checkout some_other_branch, I got this message 

fatal: unable to read tree $someSHA

(The $someSHA appearing are the same). Someone could help me ?

Edit 1 :

when I run git fsck –full, I get a serie of 

error: refs/remotes/repo0/master does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/remotes/repo1/new-version does not point to a valid object!
...

then a serie of

broken link from    tree d935b909f76ea92728d71038d0a67384353e65e1
              to    blob 05b97658ebd47fee25b76d80ac76cbd07d77961d
...

and then some missing blobs…

Edit 2 :

I ran git log –raw –all –full-history — subdir/my-file, and I get 

error: refs/remotes/repo0/master does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/remotes/repo1/new-version does not point to a valid object!
...
error: Could not read 9096eb9d9dcbdf15a04e0a7c78a3744936f82ac7
fatal: cannot simplify commit 8dfd8e3d5b698dc979300d93d8e89a757abf6ec6 (because of 9096eb9d9dcbdf15a04e0a7c78a3744936f82ac7)

Edit 3 :

I ran git fsck --full, the I get numerous lines as so 

error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-fbfd8042e1e96bf5ffff88f9b5a230b8f5e4d4c4.pack does not match index
fatal: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-fbfd8042e1e96bf5ffff88f9b5a230b8f5e4d4c4.pack cannot be accessed
...

when running git checkout to another branch I got numerous messages as so : 

error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-3e7a0c040a5e3d1c21b91256d583424d82a59706.pack does not match index
warning: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-3e7a0c040a5e3d1c21b91256d583424d82a59706.pack cannot be accessed
....
fatal: unable to read tree 2ad71d368b65eff0b6fec1ef72c6fdde6e80edad

Edit 4 :

following the suggested answer, I unpacked the files and when I checked out, I got
some lines as so : 

error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-fbfd8042e1e96bf5ffff88f9b5a230b8f5e4d4c4.pack does not match index
warning: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-fbfd8042e1e96bf5ffff88f9b5a230b8f5e4d4c4.pack cannot be accesse....

and then a serie of lines beginning with

 error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
.idea_local_work/.name
.idea_local_work/libraries/sass_stdlib.xml
.idea_local_work/scopes/scope_settings.xml
... and then aborting
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  1. Editorial Team

    First: Make a backup of your .git directory in case you corrupt things more in this process. Then:

    • Put back the best version of the packfiles you have available.

    • For each of the corrupt packfiles, run:

      mv .git/objects/pack/pack-**yourpack**.pack oldpack
git unpack-objects -r < oldpack

    • Run git fsck --full and git checkout again, give us the output.

    • Looks like now you should be able to check out, but you will have to run git checkout -f **yourbranch**, as you have changes in your working dir that are not yet committed. These changes will get lost when you run git checkout -f, though.

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