How to diagnose and fix git fatal: unable to read tree

Question

I\'m using git to manage files on a project, and keep running into this problem.

When I run git status I get the message

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Answer 1

I would start with a fresh clone, then run git fsck on the unchanged, untouched clone. I'm wondering (as above) if your initial clone is corrupt, but in a way allowing you to perform a few operations before orphaning the trees.