Error when pull or push to git: ENOENT: no such file or directory

Question

I have a problem every time I want to do pull or push from my GitHub repo using vscode git throw error message:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, watch 'c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin\master'

The repo is private in GitHub. In c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin I have one file called HEAD.

What I should do? why this error happened?

Here the full error from the vscode-git-output-control:

git pull --tags origin master
> git show :package.json
From https://github.com/user/app-repo
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
> git status -z -u
> git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
> git rev-parse master
> git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name master@{u}
> git rev-list --left-right master...refs/remotes/origin/master
> git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname) --sort -committerdate
> git remote --verbose
Failed to watch ref 'c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin\master', is most likely packed.
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, watch 'c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin\master'
    at FSWatcher.start (internal/fs/watchers.js:164:26)
    at Object.watch (fs.js:1232:11)
    at Object.t.watch (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:6950)
    at E.updateTransientWatchers (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:97463)
    at u.fire (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:50:227)
    at T.updateModelState (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:114843)
> git show :package.json
> git fetch
> git show :package.json
> git status -z -u
> git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
> git rev-parse master
> git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name master@{u}
> git rev-list --left-right master...refs/remotes/origin/master
> git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname) --sort -committerdate
> git remote --verbose
Failed to watch ref 'c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin\master', is most likely packed.
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, watch 'c:\repos\app-repo\.git\refs\remotes\origin\master'
    at FSWatcher.start (internal/fs/watchers.js:164:26)
    at Object.watch (fs.js:1232:11)
    at Object.t.watch (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:6950)
    at E.updateTransientWatchers (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:97463)
    at u.fire (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:50:227)
    at T.updateModelState (c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\main.js:1:114843)
> git show :package.json

Solution 1

I solved this creating the branch folder, in my case:

mkdir /home/projects/project_example/.git/refs/remotes/origin/branch_name

Solution 2

I encountered the same problem while trying to push to GitHub's private repo through VS Code on Mac (SSH with passphrase). Somehow it worked after creating a branch as posted by ZiTAL. It's weird though.