fatal: Failed to resolve HEAD as a valid ref

[idurvesh]

Repost of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37594459/fatal-failed-to-resolve-head-as-a-valid-ref

I am getting fatal: Failed to resolve HEAD as a valid ref. whenever I try to commit.

I have tried

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

but its not working

Also tried

git commit

its not working either from below sources

Git 'fatal: No such ref: HEAD' 

git tag: fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref

Please help in..All my commit history is also gone

[Seth]

Sounds like your repository got corrupted. If you have it pushed to a remote, you can re-clone, then copy any changes you've made from the old working copy to the new.

[idurvesh]

do you mean re clone and then copy paste made changes to working directory manually?

[thinsoldier]

You can re-clone then copy > paste your entire directory with the changes into the new clone directory and do git status to confirm all your changes were copied.

What do you see in the output from git reflog?

I had a git in a dropbox folder once that got corrupted because of dropbox. Got into the habit of having both a real remote remote and a 2nd remote pointing to another clone on the same machine and pushing to both so just in case one gets corrupted I can just clone the other local one and if my house burns down I still have the remote in the cloud also.

[idurvesh]

oh that's the good idea to replace complete root folder with newly cloned....

git reflog showin "fatal: your current branch appears to be broken"