Git cannot lock ref 'HEAD': unable to resolve reference HEAD

Question

I\'m trying to commit the changes to my repository but I receive the error below:

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false commit -q -F C:\\U         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem and the only solution that I found was to navigate to the head like so :

.git/refs/heads/branch_name

And I deleted the head file . Then I went to the console and I used the command :

git reset

Then all the files were unstaged so add them and commit them afterwards.

Answer 2

I had this problem and i used this command!

git reset

Good luck!

Answer 3

If you don't mind losing your history, you can delete the .git file and then

git init

This will reinitialize your repository and you can then proceed from there

Answer 4

Worked for me, into terminal enter: (branch accordingly to your desires lul)

echo ref: refs/heads/master >.git/HEAD