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From: Mathias Lafeldt <misfire@debugon.org>
To: Sascha Peilicke <sasch.pe@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to remove git branch
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:54:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCA7DA8.3020607@debugon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010290943.13177.sasch.pe@gmx.de>

Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I accidentally did an 'git co -b --track origin/foo' ending up with a local 
> branch '--track'. Sadly, git is unable to remove or rename that branch because 
> it always interprets it as a parameter. 
> 
> As a consequence, 'git br -d "--track"' does nothing and 'git br -m "--track" 
> foo' even renames the current branch, say, master,  to 'foo'. Any hints on how 
> to get rid of that pesky branch?
> 
> BTW please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Try:

$ git br -D -- --track

-Mathias

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29  7:43 Unable to remove git branch Sascha Peilicke
2010-10-29  7:54 ` Mathias Lafeldt [this message]
2010-10-29  7:56   ` Mathias Lafeldt
2010-10-29  8:31     ` Sascha Peilicke
2010-10-29  8:42       ` Jonathan Nieder

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