On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:08:40PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > And/or ideas of what steps could cause corruption so I can send out a > > PSA to help users avoid it? > > There is another thing we could do. One bad HEAD should not abort the > entire operation (at least if it's not the current worktree's HEAD). > We could still give a warning and move on, or don't warn at all and > let "git worktree prune" collect it (which I see from your message > that it also fails to do). Whether that's safe or not depends very much on what the caller intends to do with the ref. Skipping broken refs in "git prune" is a bad idea, for instance. -Peff