fixing a corrupt loose object as a commit in git

Question

Immediately before receiving this error I did the following:

user@thismachine:~/file/path$ git add *
user@thismachine:~/file/path$ git push 
^C
user@thismachine:~/file/path$ git commit -m "my commitmesg"

(I panicked because I forgot to add a commit before pushing, so I cntrl+c'ed it.

Now, I receive the following error from git fsck --full:

error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect header check)
error: corrupt loose object '5cdeb9c3a1fe164cb4d2779d1e0d9d9f4ef18c6a'
fatal: loose object 5cdeb9c3a1fe164cb4d2779d1e0d9d9f4ef18c6a (stored in .git/objects/5c/deb9c3a1fe164cb4d2779d1e0d9d9f4ef18c6a)

git cat-file -t 5cdeb9c3a1fe164cb4d2779d1e0d9d9f4ef18c6a returns that this object is a commit.

After searching, I've found how fix this if the object is a blob but not if it's a commit.

Answer 1

A solution from http://vincesalvino.blogspot.ca/2013/08/git-empty-files-corrupt-objects-and.html allowed me to fix the problem:

find .git/objects/ -size 0 -exec rm -f {} ;