How to deal with Git “Could not read” error

Question

I am getting this error in my git repository:

22:09:15 $ git status
# On branch master
error: Could not read 8124cc15c63be92d534e4cdfa33c38d54deee122
error:          


        

Answer 1

If you don't have uncommited changes the easiest solution is to delete the local branch: git branch -D [branch name]

and then checkout again the remote branch: git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name]