"unusable due to having an invalid HEAD reference" when running cargo upgrade

[cdstanford]

Problem

Hi, I am getting this error when running cargo upgrade:

The repo at path /Users/caleb/.cargo/registry/index/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823 is unusable due to having an invalid HEAD reference: reference 'refs/heads/master' not found; class=Reference (4); code=NotFound (-3)

I tried running cargo clean and rustup upgrade but the problem persists. Any idea what might be going on and how to fix?

This is a similar error to this issue except that I am not trying to use a different registry. It appears to occur on any repository, including when creating one with cargo init:

(base) caleb:git $ mkdir test-repo
(base) caleb:git $ cd test-repo
(base) caleb:test-repo $ cargo init
    Creating binary (application) package
note: see more `Cargo.toml` keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
(base) caleb:test-repo $ cargo upgrade
Error: The repo at path /Users/caleb/.cargo/registry/index/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823 is unusable due to having an invalid HEAD reference: reference 'refs/heads/master' not found; class=Reference (4); code=NotFound (-3)

Thanks!

Steps

I don't have steps to reproduce as this may occur only on my setup.

Possible Solution(s)

I tried running cargo clean and rustup upgrade but the problem persists.

I have not tried doing a fresh uninstall/reinstall of rustup and Rust, but I can try that if this appears to be something totally broken with my setup.

Notes

No response

Version

$ cargo version --verbose
cargo 1.84.0 (66221abde 2024-11-19)
release: 1.84.0
commit-hash: 66221abdeca2002d318fde6efff516aab091df0e
commit-date: 2024-11-19
host: aarch64-apple-darwin
libgit2: 1.8.1 (sys:0.19.0 vendored)
libcurl: 8.7.1 (sys:0.4.74+curl-8.9.0 system ssl:(SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6)
ssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1w  11 Sep 2023
os: Mac OS 15.2.0 [64-bit]

[weihanglo]

Note that cargo upgrade is a third-party plugin offered by https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit. Have you filed an issue there?

Anyway, it might be git index was corrupted during download. You could remove /Users/caleb/.cargo/registry/index/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823 directory and try again.
Also, [email protected] uses sparse index registry by default. You might have been using the old version of cargo-edit.

[cdstanford]

Thanks! Forgot that cargo upgrade is third party - cargo uninstall cargo-edit followed by cargo install cargo-edit seems to have solved the problem. I didn't raise at https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit but I will do so if the problem comes back or if others have this issue later.