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How to fix the Reference has invalid format in git repos due to Google Drive

find . -type f -name "* (1)*" -exec rm -f {} \;
awk '!/conflicted/' .git/packed-refs > temp && mv temp .git/packed-refs

Note: those two lines are destructive commands if you first want to see what they do try:

find . -type f -name "* (1)*"
awk '!/conflicted/' .git/packed-refs
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