fatal: bad object xxx

Question

I tried reverting to a previous git commit with:

git revert xxx

I\'m now receiving this error as a response:

fatal: bad object          


        

Answer 1

I just ran into the same error (bad object [hash]) while attempting to merge from a branch my client didn't know about. (Similar to PrzeoR's case, but instead of needing a pull I needed to fetch)

In my case I needed to run git fetch to re-sync my client to the state of the server. Posting this here in case anyone reaches this thread the same way I did and could benefit from this insight.

git pull
git cherry-pick [hash]
fatal: bad object [hash]
git fetch
remote: Counting objects: 8, done. (etc.)
From github.com:repo/branch
 * [new branch] branchname

git cherry-pick [hash]
[success]