Git repository corrupt (incorrect header check; loose object is corrupt)

Question

I experienced a power failure yesterday evening while writing a commit message. When I booted the machine back up I couldn\'t complete the commit. I ran git reset

Answer 1

As described in this answer I ran:

git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all
git gc --prune=now

Which removed all of my dangling blobs and dangling commits, as well as the corrupt db objects.

It was a lot faster than tracking them down one-by-one!