fatal: could not parse HEAD Error When Committing

Question

Whenever I try to commit my work, I get this error.

fatal: could not parse HEAD

What should I do if I want to preserve my changes?

Answer 1

Do you know what branch HEAD was supposed to point to? Was it master? Run git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master.

Basically, the symbolic reference with the name HEAD is corrupted somehow. You (or software you ran) must have gone poking around the .git dir. If I were you I would check to make sure nothing else in your repo is damaged. You can verify your object database by running git fsck.

Answer 2

Copy the new files you recently changed to another directory, delete the git local repository in your computer, clone the repository again using 'git clone URL', move the recently changed files your copied to another back to this directory, do git add files, git commit -m " ur msg ", and push to the remote repository using git push