title: Pointer file error: Unable to parse pointer at: "File path" with git
body: <p>I am trying to merge a branch A into branch B.</p>
  
  <p>But merge failed with error 
  <code>Pointer file error: Unable to parse pointer at: "File path"</code> for several files in the repository. (<code>*.meta</code>, <code>*.unity</code> , <code>*.mat</code>, <code>*.json</code>, <code>*.prefab</code>)</p>
  
  <p>I have tried multiple solution that I found on net. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Updated source tree(using this) and git lfs to the latest version (2.3.4)</li>
  <li>Tried command line merge </li>
  <li>Tried commands <code>git lfs uninstall</code> and <code>git lfs install</code>.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>But none of the above solutions worked for me.</p>
  
  <p>It is unity3d project repository.</p>