From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:35:35 GMT Subject: Re: git-reflog bails if branch points to bad commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 20:13, Kevin Ballard wrote: > Attempting to use `git reflog show foo` or `git log -g foo` will > bail with "bad object: foo" if the tip commit of foo is > invalid. This seems incredibly non-useful. Why should reflog care if > foo points to a valid commit? This bug prevents reflog from being > used in a time of great need, which someone just ran into on the > #git IRC channel. Their power cut out and they ended up with a > corrupt commit on the tip of their branch, and they simply could not > view the reflog, which would have enabled them to roll the branch > back to a previous commit. Does anybody know why reflog has this > behavior? As you say the repository is probably corrupted, and recovering from that may be hard, not much you can do with corrupted data. Can this person provide a tar-ed copy of the repository so we can look at it and be of help, instead of speculating?