title: How to remove "fatal: loose object"?
body: <p>One of my cloned repositories is getting this from a git fsck</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>fatal: loose object 40bda4e3b79c3d7bf598df31d9e68470f97a3f79 (stored in .git/objects/40/bda4e3b79c3d7bf598df31d9e68470f97a3f79) is corrupt</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I've got another copy of it that fsck's cleanly.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried nuking the directory/subdirectories that contain the fatal one, and
  recloning it. The problem continues.</p>
  
  <p>I really don't care about any particular file, I just want the repository to 
  checkout cleanly. What do I do?</p>
  
  <p>Note: the remote repository is hosted on github.</p>