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Sourcetree/GIT - Cannot lock ref/reference broken, when pulling

A co-worker and I have been working on the same branch for a week, constantly pushing/pulling changes and all of a sudden today, I hit 'pull' to see if there were any changes I needed to pull and I got an error.

This is in sourcetree by the way. The error was this:

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false fetch origin
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/angular_removal': unable to resolve reference 'refs/remotes/origin/angular_removal': reference broken
From https://bitbucket.org/colossus
 ! [new branch]        angular_removal -> origin/angular_removal  (unable to update local ref)

I'm in sourcetree, which has a terminal built in, but I can't seem to find a resolution here.

Solution

  • I was able to get this fixed by deleted all the items in the .git/packed-refs file.

    Then I just did a git pull in terminal to get all the references/code from the remote.