To expand further, here's the output from the command line when this happened. ~/Development/github(jetty)$ git push pjhyett jetty fatal: bad object e13a86261c6e710af8fd4b5fb093b28b8583d820 error: pack-objects died with strange error error: failed to push some refs to 'git@xxxxxxxxxx:pjhyett/github.git' ~/Development/github(jetty)$ git fsck --full warning in tree 0d640d99b492b0c7db034e92d0460a7f84b22356: contains zero-padded file modes warning in tree 56fe2a1a3da446606aadf8861feccd592b636a34: contains zero-padded file modes warning in tree 99e2a89db2aa9846fc2491b3e4ccd8861e8d3283: contains zero-padded file modes warning in tree a6e532d7451bc4aadab86ade84df69180fab4765: contains zero-padded file modes dangling blob 43611213c3eff91e5fe071cf2907f69a99b630b2 dangling commit b28b3ecd85a04ecbd1dcb8aedc6886a465f6ab18 dangling commit 13a70c8687527936d2c375f0f7aefe71142de3c7 dangling commit 2aa94c1199cb332f58b70c6ce19d8de3c45c6f3c dangling blob 61b910e7a97600691fd279e4db3662e751fb5fb7 dangling commit c4f19e16208d59666323ae0575435720be9b865d dangling commit 19245f5d77aa449eebb4a0521b5ff4f6ce1865ab dangling commit 122995fb7c9a7e459b0801e0647eb918bea878bf dangling commit 7d51e3926b8720d1c7cad19aeb35d6ab4af755fd dangling commit 1162dd21370439416967a34915832125e4975239 dangling blob 8c630b66927f6022a72e457be308de5c9ad9f4e6 dangling blob 827d4d8855fe6a3a7856ea35cd641192140f2dcd dangling commit c9824506855d6cad9b52df115aa267d70872c2cc dangling blob fb9bbfc3aa17c5d1ae4e15c862bd874e3476fcfc dangling commit 46a4b39245a58ad867010f272991d6233db6288b dangling commit d6bf5f30853fecea745559dc3a718113f3619634 dangling blob d4d66fc4c3a2cbc94d8ed9cb30a6b56daa86e58f dangling commit b4f8d7766e8905e5ac6d6cfeeaf7370a716c24a2 Very odd that the bad object didn't appear in the fsck output. I was able to fix the error by copying a non-corrupted version of the object back into .git/objects and then running a git fetch. -PJ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html