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Error: Unable to load Commits. fatal: bad object desktop.ini

Summary: Bad desktop.ini file that is created by Google Drive. Needs to be deleted.

Delete all desktop.ini files

1. Run CMD as administrator
2. Navigate to the folder where the bad file is using cd
3. Delete all "desktop.ini" files in the folder and all sub-folders using del desktop.ini /A:H /S
4. Reload the git graph extension and the error should have gone

Manually delete each desktop.ini file with explanations

1. Run CMD as administrator
2. Navigate to the folder where the bad file is using cd
3. Show all files in the folder along with their marked attributes using attrib
4. Any hidden file has an "H" file attribute next to it
5. Remove the hidden attribute of the file using attrib -h desktop.ini. Note, if there are more than one attribute, you need to remove all of them for this command to work (see link 3)
6. Delete the file using del desktop.ini
7. Continue for all files that need to be deleted
8. Reload the git graph extension and the error should have gone

References

1. Explanation Link
2. Show Hidden Files
3. Remove Attributes from Files
4. Delete All Hidden Files

Clearing Secrets from History

Summary:

• Create a text file at the parent folder of the repo (not in the repo) of the replacements you need to make such as "BigLynnReplacements.txt"
• Each line is a new replacement, e.g.; ‘xau_8Q9v6YrRzXgPcSvgjOvVbYEwkKm1lgBo4’==>ENV[‘XATA_API_KEY’] would replace the API key with the environment variable name
• Copy the file "git-filter-repo" from Personal Coding into the repo
• Open the CMD for the repo
• Use the command git filter-repo --replace-text ../BigLynnReplacements.txt --force to go through the history of the repo and make all the required replacements

References

1. Rewriting Git History Cheatsheet