How to deal with Git "Could not read" error

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I am getting this error in my git repository:

22:09:15 $ git status
# On branch master
error: Could not read 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
error: unable to read tree object HEAD
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

A Google search for error: unable to read tree object HEAD doesn't result in much help, this error seems to be very rare. I am not sure how to deal with it. Could it be a hard drive failure?

Edit: The output of git fsck is the following:

broken link from  commit 607328dc80e4901a55b95c683d4fbf43e6df28bf
              to    tree 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
missing tree 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
dangling tree 56b5d4a5e429d251582ec927bca7ef1225510c41
dangling tree 0259d2d38b18b6136bb6070fb41faf3624453cc6
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8 Answers

If none of the above steps work and you have local changes that you want to keep and have a remote repository in tact, this reset script works wonders.

If in addition you need to keep your stash, copy the following files over manually:

  • .git/objects
  • .git/refs/stash
  • .git/logs/refs/stash
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