Failed to read references from 'Respository_name\.git': invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 24

[Ioannarcis14]

Fork forced me to update to newer version, and now I can't open some projects, every time it opens this pop up with error:

Failed to read references from 'Respository_name.git': invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 24

[DanPristupov]

Probably Fork can't read a branch with invalid utf8 sequence in the name. Can you check if you have any such references? In can be a remote branch with umlauts in cp1252 encoding.

Run git for-each-ref in the command line.

[Ioannarcis14]

Thanks, I have almost a thousand branches...

To solve it I run this command grep -axv '.*' packed-refs which tells me on that file which line has a wrong character. Replacing those characters and saving did it for me.

[DanPristupov]

In the next update, Fork will learn to read branches with names in cp1252 encoding. Manipulations with them will not be impossible, but at least they will not crash the application.

[DanPristupov]

We just released Fork 2.0 update