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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:13:51+00:00

My morning started with git pull , just like any other morning: $ git

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My morning started with git pull, just like any other morning:

$ git pull
error: unable to resolve reference refs/remotes/origin/card-declined: Undefined error: 0
From github.com:instaedu/instaedu
 ! [new branch]      card-declined -> origin/card-declined  (unable to update local ref)

(FYI, “card-declined” is a branch I pushed to GitHub just last night, and hasn’t had any activity since then.)

I’ve never seen that error before, so I looked it up and found this question: git pull fails “unalble to resolve reference” “unable to update local ref”. The top-voted answer there says to try running git gc --prune=now, so I did that:

$ git gc --prune=now
error: bad ref for refs/remotes/origin/card-declined
error: bad ref for refs/remotes/origin/card-declined
fatal: loose object b28488de1ef3f6887eef99c0316a654d1803e6af (stored in .git/objects/b2/8488de1ef3f6887eef99c0316a654d1803e6af) is corrupt
error: failed to run repack

It didn’t seem to fix anything, though now I see that something seems to have been corrupted since yesterday.

Any idea how to resolve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Although I re-cloned the repository so I could continue working, I did keep the old corrupted one around, in case I happened to find a way to fix it. Unfortunately, I found no such fix.

    If you run into this problem, your best bet is just to git clone the repository again. Hopefully you’ve already pushed your latest changes to a remote before the repo got corrupted.

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