Diagnose and recover broken Git state and worktree metadata with a staged, low-risk recovery flow. Use when Git reports detached or contradictory HEAD state, phantom worktree locks, orphaned worktree entries, missing refs, 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hashes, or branch operations fail with errors like already checked out, unknown revision, not a valid object name, or cannot lock ref.
Quickly install unfuck-my-git-state AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill.
If stale entries remain, back up .git/ and remove the specific stale folder under .git/worktrees/ , then rerun prune.
Find the worktree using that branch, switch that worktree to another branch or detach HEAD there, then retry the branch operation in the main repo.
If branch context is unknown, create a rescue branch from current commit:
Diagnose and recover broken Git state and worktree metadata with a staged, low-risk recovery flow. Use when Git reports detached or contradictory HEAD state, phantom worktree locks, orphaned worktree entries, missing refs, 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hashes, or branch operations fail with errors like already checked out, unknown revision, not a valid object name, or cannot lock ref. Source: delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill.
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npx skills add https://github.com/delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill --skill unfuck-my-git-stateDiagnose and recover broken Git state and worktree metadata with a staged, low-risk recovery flow. Use when Git reports detached or contradictory HEAD state, phantom worktree locks, orphaned worktree entries, missing refs, 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hashes, or branch operations fail with errors like already checked out, unknown revision, not a valid object name, or cannot lock ref. Source: delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill --skill unfuck-my-git-state Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/delorenj/unfuck-my-git-state-skill