git fatal - the remote hung up unexpectedly but not RPC or permission or broken pipe related message

Question

I have seen many post here on SO about git fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly issue but none of them seem to be related to mine.

All posts about this error on here are related to RPC, permission, broken pipe etc but the fatal error I get does not mention any of these. It looks just like below

I went to github page and I noticed big red warning at the top telling me to change my password, so I thought that could be the problem. I changed password and then tried again to push my local branch to remote (this branch was never pushed to remote before), but then I get following error

The above shows that an object with SHA=997ea57135c8343d4e062b673b1cf09cb65f9edf is having duplicate file entries so I wanted to see what the object is and it shows me number of duplicates like below:

dinosmbp:SquirrelFOH dinob$ git show 997ea57135c8343d4e062b673b1cf09cb65f9edf
tree 997ea57135c8343d4e062b673b1cf09cb65f9edf

.gitignore
.gitignore
Publishing/
Publishing/
SquirrelFoH.ipa
SquirrelFoH.ipa
SquirrelFoH.sln
SquirrelFoH.sln
SquirrelFoH/
dinosmbp:SquirrelFOH dinob$ 

I havent seen this before so I searched bit online and found how to issue git fsck --full and get:

dinosmbp:SquirrelFOH dinob$ git fsck --full
error in tree 0137ab90aeee240379136b822fce2c021b2ce1a0: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 02d112e8af95964cbbaee8763177826636291086: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 04150d134087d2b28e7e8249e2b0b90fac1f095b: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 047def9b30f4403b2ae5d79d6d6353e3ef875bf4: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 06b790d9ba539bb6dd6348f5419b3cf04c1d7fb9: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0870312ba37d1af6d57aff5d6e8dce379ffa4369: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0963aaeee0ea0bf161ed09b5724f771bda03c18b: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0a4e9aaf2e465bd67b1f5b36b6ec0cf286821e6b: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0ee901e3ac610d53f02a276389b41eff8b14bc84: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0f54d177dc9f3b497afefbffb6fd907d8e705c70: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 0fa52886e99e405e45ec1f86dbdefa2ca5992a5f: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
error in tree 108b796f7d07385897855c7fcc702db0d35f2023: duplicateEntries: contains duplicate file entries
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Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
Checking objects: 100% (27875/27875), done.
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dinosmbp:SquirrelFOH dinob$ 

Flabellum

Answer 1

The message in the latter case is because your Git objects are malformed. GitHub runs an fsck (consistency check) when accepting objects, and one of your tree (directory) objects contains multiple entries for the same file. Git wouldn't know how to check out such a tree entry: should it use the former entry, or the latter?

If you're using software other than Git itself to commit in your repository, you should report this issue to the makers of that software, since it's likely that software is writing bad data. Hopefully the makers of that software can give you tips for fixing the issue.

As for fixing this problem on your own, you could try to fix your branch with a force rebase. If you pick the branch from which your current branch was created, say master, you can then write git rebase --force master. That should cause Git to rebase your commits, and hopefully it will rewrite the tree objects that were corrupt.

Discomposure

Thank you for your reply. I am using git from the terminal on Mac. I do have SourceTree installed as well but I use SourceTree only to visualize what changed in files when I do my work, not to stage, commit, pull or push. – Flabellum

Is there any more info you can provide/elaborate? I already merged my branch with develop using merge, not rebase. Is applying rebase force still an option and if it is I guess I apply it from my branch (above that is feat/hi-merge)? Thanks – Flabellum

You can try to use git rebase -fr to fix your branch and recreate the merge, but it requires a relatively recent Git to do so. – Discomposure