I am having an error in SourceTree that says, "Error Encountered: 'git tag' failed with code 128: fatal: unterminated line in .git/packed-refs" If anyone has seen this error and knows a solution I would be grateful.
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Just delete the file .git/packed-refs.
Then "refresh" your repo with a pull or fetch.
I had the same error
fatal: unterminated line in .git/packed-refs: ...(And that file was just lines of:
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000)In my case deleting the file worked and I was able to use my repo again.
Failing the above, I would try something like mentioned in this answer. The steps are:
- move old git directory
- initialise new repo
- link to old repo (by
remote add origin) - get old history (
fetch) - force update to old history (by doing a
reset)
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endolith
this kills all of your local branches too
if did't see .git/packed-refs folder from flutter just delete flutter SDK and extract new SDK same folder
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Just delete the file .git / packed-refs. from the flutter folder
Download the sdk again from https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows and copy the folder to the flutter location, in this way files were mixed and everything worked correctly.
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Probably won't be everybody's fix, but I went into the file and looked at it with VS Code text editor and noticed it only had thousands of null characters, so I just deleted all of them an saved. Seemed to do the trick.
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Deleting .git/packed-refs file should fix the issue.
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I know this question is from a while ago but I ran into this issue today, so just wanted to post what I did to resolve it in case it helps someone. I uninstalled and installed the latest Sourcetree version and the error went away.
.git/packed-refsand correct the file.