My computer shut down suddenly and now the Git repository of the project which I worked on is defect. I have Git 2.20.1 installed. I immediately created a backup copy of the project folder to play ...

Git's fsck doc talks about "dangling" objects, while the gc doc talks only about "loose objects". There's a strict split. But while skimming a few related SO posts, the terms se...

I'm looking for the basic information on dangling commits and blobs. My repository seems fine. But I ran git fsck for the first time to see what it did and I have a long list of 'dangling blobs' an...

I recently tried to import a repository into GitHub (from Bitbucket) and the import was failing. GitHub tech support imformed me that they were seeing "bad date" issues in the repository and that I...

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, perm...

I have the following settings in my global Git configuration: [transfer] fsckobjects = true [fetch] fsckobjects = true [receive] fsckobjects = true These verify that all objects in the clon...

Overview: I am unable to successfully pull changes in our repo to our production server. Running "git fsck" on my repo returned 5 instances of the same error: warning in tree [hash]: contains en...

Let's say I want to write a small helper that allows to append some metadata to a repository in a way that can propagate to clones via refs. Simple example (a git-notes clone prototype that doesn't...

tl;dr: is it possible to recover HEAD^'s tree if it is deleted and not pushed beforehand and if everything else is intact? I accidentally deleted part of my .git. I'm not entirely sure what's miss...

What is the meaning in behind the fsck command name? The documentation of the command does not seem to mention what the name stands for.

On my local machine I removed files from folder. git init git add --all then I wrote (don't ask me, why! :) ) git rm -rf I don't commit, yet. Now I have empty folders in my project. In .git ...