[Solved-1 Solution] How to fix GIT error: object file is empty?
Error Description:
- When we try to commit changes, we get this error:
error: object file .git/objects/31/65329bb680e30595f242b7c4d8406ca63eeab0 is empty
fatal: loose object 3165329bb680e30595f242b7c4d8406ca63eeab0 (stored in .git/objects/31/65329bb680e30595f242b7c4d8406ca63eeab0) is corrupt
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Solution 1:
Step 1: Make a backup of .git (in fact I do this in between every step that changes something, but with a new copy-to name, e.g. .git-old-1, .git-old-2, etc.):
cp -a .git .git-old
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Step 2: Run git fsck --full
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git fsck --full
error: object file .git/objects/8b/61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e is empty
fatal: loose object 8b61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e (stored in .git/objects/8b/61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e) is corrupt
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Step 3: Remove the empty file.
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ rm .git/objects/8b/61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `.git/objects/8b/61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e'? y
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Step 3: Run git fsck again. Continue deleting the empty files. We can also cd into the .gitdirectory and run find . -type f -empty -delete -print to remove all empty files. Eventually git will start to tell it was actually doing something with the object directories:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git fsck --full
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
error: object file .git/objects/e0/cbccee33aea970f4887194047141f79a363636 is empty
fatal: loose object e0cbccee33aea970f4887194047141f79a363636 (stored in .git/objects/e0/cbccee33aea970f4887194047141f79a363636) is corrupt
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Step 4: After deleting all of the empty files, we eventually come to git fsck actually running:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git fsck --full
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
error: HEAD: invalid sha1 pointer af9fc0c5939eee40f6be2ed66381d74ec2be895f
error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/heads/master.u1conflict does not point to a valid object!
error: 0e31469d372551bb2f51a186fa32795e39f94d5c: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
dangling blob 03511c9868b5dbac4ef1343956776ac508c7c2a2
missing blob 8b61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e
missing blob e89896b1282fbae6cf046bf21b62dd275aaa32f4
dangling blob dd09f7f1f033632b7ef90876d6802f5b5fede79a
missing blob caab8e3d18f2b8c8947f79af7885cdeeeae192fd
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Step 5: Try git reflog. Fail because the HEAD is broken.
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git reflog
fatal: bad object HEAD
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Step 6: Google. Find thisManually get the last two lines of the reflog:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ tail -n 2 .git/logs/refs/heads/master
f2d4c4868ec7719317a8fce9dc18c4f2e00ede04 9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d Nathan VanHoudnos <nathanvan@gmail.com> 1347306977 -0400 commit: up to p. 24, including correcting spelling of my name
9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d af9fc0c5939eee40f6be2ed66381d74ec2be895f Nathan VanHoudnos <nathanvan@gmail.com> 1347358589 -0400 commit: fixed up to page 28
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Step 7: Note that from Step 6 we learned that the HEAD is currently pointing to the very last commit. So let's try to just look at the parent commit:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git show 9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d
commit 9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d
Author: Nathan VanHoudnos <nathanvan@XXXXXX>
Date: Mon Sep 10 15:56:17 2012 -0400
up to p. 24, including correcting spelling of my name
diff --git a/tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex b/tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex
index 86e67a1..b860686 100644
--- a/tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex
+++ b/tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex
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Step 8: So now we need to point HEAD to 9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d.
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git update-ref HEAD 9f0abf890b113a287e10d56b66dbab66adc1662d
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- Which didn't complain
Step 9: See what fsck says:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git fsck --full
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
error: refs/heads/master.u1conflict does not point to a valid object!
error: 0e31469d372551bb2f51a186fa32795e39f94d5c: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
dangling blob 03511c9868b5dbac4ef1343956776ac508c7c2a2
missing blob 8b61d0135d3195966b443f6c73fb68466264c68e
missing blob e89896b1282fbae6cf046bf21b62dd275aaa32f4
dangling blob dd09f7f1f033632b7ef90876d6802f5b5fede79a
missing blob caab8e3d18f2b8c8947f79af7885cdeeeae192fd
missing blob e4cf65ddf80338d50ecd4abcf1caf1de3127c229
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Step 10: The invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree seemed like it was from a (now outdated) index file .So we kill it and reset the repo.
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ rm .git/index
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git reset
Unstaged changes after reset:
M tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex
M tex/recipe-example/build-example-plots.R
M tex/recipe-example/build-failure-plots.R
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Step 11: Looking at the fsck again...
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git fsck --full
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
error: refs/heads/master.u1conflict does not point to a valid object!
dangling blob 03511c9868b5dbac4ef1343956776ac508c7c2a2
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The dangling blobs are not errors
Step 12: Catching up with the local edits:
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
# (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
# modified: tex/MCMC-in-IRT.tex
# modified: tex/recipe-example/build-example-plots.R
# modified: tex/recipe-example/build-failure-plots.R
#
< ... snip ... >
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git commit -a -m "recovering from the git fiasco"
[master 7922876] recovering from the git fiasco
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git add tex/sept2012_code/example-code-testing.R
nathanvan@nathanvan-N61Jq:~/workspace/mcmc-chapter$ git commit -a -m "adding in the example code"
[master 385c023] adding in the example code
1 file changed, 331 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tex/sept2012_code/example-code-testing.R