Git Error — Unable to update local refs

Rathish Kannan
1 min readMay 27, 2020
  • This error happens during git pull or git fetch operations

Troubleshoot

Make sure your SSH keys are available in both Github and local directory

git gc — prune=now

This removes any duplicate reference objects which should fix the issue.

git remote prune origin

Intially it looks permission that can be resolved by adding SSH

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