From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sascha Peilicke Subject: Unable to remove git branch Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:43:12 +0200 Message-ID: <201010290943.13177.sasch.pe@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7303624.Fo8fJmbk0z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 29 09:43:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBjcV-0001XY-KR for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:43:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754978Ab0J2HnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:43:19 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:59153 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753553Ab0J2HnR (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:43:17 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2010 07:43:15 -0000 Received: from charybdis-ext.suse.de (EHLO bort.localnet) [195.135.221.2] by mail.gmx.net (mp053) with SMTP; 29 Oct 2010 09:43:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #30943063 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/W3IN2TiDWPO5qHpXolyGaA1bReiX/CF5TNC3ym9 YUj5SeRmtvdBOv User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart7303624.Fo8fJmbk0z Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi guys, I accidentally did an 'git co -b --track origin/foo' ending up with a local= =20 branch '--track'. Sadly, git is unable to remove or rename that branch beca= use=20 it always interprets it as a parameter.=20 As a consequence, 'git br -d "--track"' does nothing and 'git br -m "--trac= k"=20 foo' even renames the current branch, say, master, to 'foo'. Any hints on = how=20 to get rid of that pesky branch? BTW please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list. =2D-=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen, Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com --nextPart7303624.Fo8fJmbk0z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkzKexEACgkQDq/ykSrZt1XxWgCeOpfcpNjG/a8WzNDqcRxKSrgL YmAAoK3j0QVLD7H7mMfTgBi/F3SU0Po7 =L2iC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7303624.Fo8fJmbk0z--