git commit stopped working - Error building trees

Question

I can not commit a change:

$ git commit
error: invalid object 100644 13da9eeff5a9150cf2135aaed4d2e337f97b8114 for \'spec/routing/splits_routing_spec.rb\'
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Answer 1

In my case, this was due to a different version of git. I had been using my repository through the official Windows port of git and started using the MinGW port with the same version number.

I started to encounter this issue when trying to commit with MinGW git. Switching back to windows Git solved the issue.