From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Subject: remote does not support deleting refs Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:22:10 +0200 Message-ID: <486FE602.3060301@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 05 23:24:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KFFEv-00016n-1x for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:24:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752914AbYGEVWM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752941AbYGEVWM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:22:12 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:60963 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752409AbYGEVWL (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:22:11 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jul 2008 21:22:09 -0000 Received: from p54B213DF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.0.116]) [84.178.19.223] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 05 Jul 2008 23:22:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4107867 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+HAfNXlIKH2W3xuzGIyc2RppGBn63P92Uc0l5v03 544gE9TA2QWIR+ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.75 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I tried to setup a central git repository. Access is via ssh. How do I delete a remote branch? If I try it using > git branch -d -r origin/testbranch > git push origin :refs/heads/testbranch I get the error To ssh://myserver.com/my/path/to/repository ! [rejected] testbranch (remote does not support deleting refs) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://myserver.com/my/path/to/repository' So how do I setup my remote repository to allow deleting remote branches? Thanks, Martin