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I am having an error in SourceTree that says, "Error Encountered: 'git tag' failed with code 128: fatal: unterminated line in .git/packed-refs" If anyone has seen this error and knows a solution I would be grateful.

Lee
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    I have never seen it, but the obvious thing to do would be to use a text-safe editor (e.g., vim or emacs, not some IDE editor that's going to insert HTML or Microsoft markup crud) on `.git/packed-refs` and correct the file. – torek Jan 04 '19 at 19:04

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Just delete the file .git/packed-refs.

Then "refresh" your repo with a pull or fetch.

I had the same error fatal: unterminated line in .git/packed-refs: ...

(And that file was just lines of:

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000)

In my case deleting the file worked and I was able to use my repo again.

Failing the above, I would try something like mentioned in this answer. The steps are:

  • move old git directory
  • initialise new repo
  • link to old repo (by remote add origin)
  • get old history (fetch)
  • force update to old history (by doing a reset)
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if did't see .git/packed-refs folder from flutter just delete flutter SDK and extract new SDK same folder

Boken
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Moorthyfolio
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Just delete the file .git / packed-refs. from the flutter folder

Download the sdk again from https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows and copy the folder to the flutter location, in this way files were mixed and everything worked correctly.

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I know this question is from a while ago but I ran into this issue today, so just wanted to post what I did to resolve it in case it helps someone. I uninstalled and installed the latest Sourcetree version and the error went away.

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Probably won't be everybody's fix, but I went into the file and looked at it with VS Code text editor and noticed it only had thousands of null characters, so I just deleted all of them an saved. Seemed to do the trick.

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