Power outages, system crashes, or forced shutdowns during active Git operations (like committing,...
Power outages, system crashes, or forced shutdowns during active Git operations (like committing, pulling, or pushing) often result in corrupted metadata files. This happens because the file-writing process is abruptly cut off mid-stream, leaving files blank, filled with null bytes, or locked.
warning: ignoring broken ref refs/heads/main
fatal: cannot lock ref 'HEAD': unable to resolve reference...
error: bad signature 0x00000000 / fatal: index file corrupt
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