My team and I ran into this error, unable to update local ref, when doing a pull in SourceTree.
Update 2020: Per @Edward Yang’s answer below, @bryan’s comment on this answer, and this question/answer you may need to run both
git gc --prune=nowandgit remote prune origin. Running only the former has always worked for me but based on ppl’s responses I think both are necessary to address different causes of the error.
We used:
git gc --prune=now
This removes any duplicate reference objects which should fix the issue.
Here are a few links where you can learn more about git references and pruning :
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