Git fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/heads/master

Question

I am using Dropbox to sync a git repository, but now when I try and push I am getting an error:

fatal: Reference has inval         


        

Answer 1

I was getting same error

fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/heads/somebranch (1)'

for the following command

git branch

Then, I searched for erroneous name (branch name followed by (1) ) using the command

find . -name 'somebranch (1)'

And it showed the following result

./.git/refs/heads/somebranch (1)

Which is some duplicated version of somebranch IMO. So, I removed this by executing the find command following by delete

find . -name 'somebranch (1)' -print -exec rm -rf {} \;

Then the branch command run successfully

git branch