Git conflicted copy error while cloning a repository

Question

I am using dropbox as a git repository.

Now due to some issue in the syncing, there is some conflicted copy present in the git. How do I remove this conflict ? Due to this conflict I am unable to clone the contents of that repository.

The error I am getting while cloning the repository is:-

Git :- fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/heads/debugging (xyz conflictedcopy date) '

Answer 1

Just delete every file in <Repo>/.git/ which ends in (... conflictedcopy <date>).

That will clean your git repo; the answer by Frank R. does in fact the same, while keeping the other by Dropbox abused files :)