Emergency Guide: Repairing Git Repositories After a Power Outage (opens in new tab)

Power outages, system crashes, or forced shutdowns during active Git operations (like committing, pulling, or pushing) often result in corrupted metadata files. This happens because the file-writing process is abruptly cut off mid-stream, leaving files blank, filled with null bytes, or locked. 🚨 Common Error Symptoms warning: ignoring broken ref refs/heads/main fatal: cannot lock ref 'HEAD': unable to resolve reference... error: bad signature 0x00000000 / fatal: index file corrupt 🛠️ Step-by-...