git-reflog bails if branch points to bad commit

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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?

-Kevin Ballard--
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