git-repair command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

git-repair: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-repair: command not found

Solutions to git-repair: command not found

How To Fix git-repair: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-repair is provided by git-repair package.

git-repair is:

git-repair can repair various forms of damage to git repositories.

It is a complement to git fsck, which finds problems, but does not fix them.

As well as avoiding the need to rm -rf a damaged repository and re-clone, using git-repair can help rescue commits you’ve made to the damaged repository and not yet pushed out.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install git-repair

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install git-repair.

sudo apt -y install git-repair

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install git-repair

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix git-repair command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.