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 got this error while trying to cherry-pick a commit whose hash I had copied from GitHub. This commit was on a branch that I hadn't pulled, just like PrzeoR.

Unlike PrzeoR a git fetch didn't help at first because the branch had been deleted on GitHub. Fortunately I was able to find the corresponding (closed) Pull Request and to restore the branch on GitHub.