Fix for cleaning a repository when: "error: Couldn't set refs/heads/branchName"

git-failed-to-push.sh

# Solves:
#   error: Couldn't set refs/heads/branchName
#   To X:xxx.git  
#   ! [remote rejected] branchName -> branchName (failed to write)
#   error: failed to push some refs to 'X:xxx.git'

git fsck --unreachable
git reflog expire --expire=0 --all
git repack -a -d -l
git prune
git gc --aggressive

I find myself having to do this on every commit if its been more than like, 5 minutes. Is there a permanent fix? ( i am not suing google drive or anything). Furthermore, I find this corrupts my history and makes lal my commits look like they were at once.

I have been having this issue a lot, with remote stored in a network drive. Apparently local refs have drifted from remote. The tip from the ohshitgit guide is useful (https://ohshitgit.com/), in all cases it has solved my problem, as long as it is ok to reset local:

git reset --hard origin/branchName