Broken branch in git, fatal: your current branch appears to be broken

Question

Here is my case:

• I was working on one branch.
• Pushed new commits to the remote.
• Switched back to the master branch.

But suddenly

Answer 1

You branch name now probably contains some special characters or something like that.

You should go to the root-directory of your check-out (where the .git/ directory is) and

1. List item edit .git/packed-refs; if you see a line with your branch name then delete it
2. look in .git/refs/heads for a file named after your branch; if you see one, delete it