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Today, I got the strange error below. I unlocked a file, and edited it, and attempted to sync, when I saw the error.
```
remote: error: object a86b9c49d9ef8c88c3180013eef3da5f6ffa9353: symlinkPointsToGitDir: symlink target points to git dir
remote: error: object ebb743ffb44e23c54a7e3ed44a444cc0ed0df42d: symlinkPointsToGitDir: symlink target points to git dir
remote: fatal: fsck error in pack objects
error: remote unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To gitlab.com:datamanager/tasks.git
! [remote rejected] git-annex -> synced/git-annex (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] master -> synced/master (unpacker error)
error: failed to push some refs to 'gitlab.com:datamanager/tasks.git'
remote: error: object a86b9c49d9ef8c88c3180013eef3da5f6ffa9353: symlinkPointsToGitDir: symlink target points to git dir
remote: error: object ebb743ffb44e23c54a7e3ed44a444cc0ed0df42d: symlinkPointsToGitDir: symlink target points to git dir
remote: fatal: fsck error in pack objects
error: remote unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To gitlab.com:datamanager/tasks.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error)
```
It's strange because I've done this unlock, edit, and sync, flow a few times in the past week, with no problems. I've only been able to find one reference point for this, in [git's own documentation](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck#Documentation/git-fsck.txt-codesymlinkPointsToGitDircode).
It's very concerning because it prevents me from syncing with my remote repository at all. I was able to work around the problem with `git reset HEAD~` so I could at least get a few changes sent to my remote, but that meant I lost all the changes I made to the file itself.
Can anyone say what the problem might be here? Why does git suddenly seem upset that I've got a symlink pointing at my git directory?
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