From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Subject: error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: was remote does not support deleting refs Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:20:18 +0200 Message-ID: <48700FC2.8080307@gmx.de> References: <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 Sun Jul 06 02:21:21 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 1KFI0G-0000Yt-K6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:21:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753088AbYGFAUW (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:20:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753309AbYGFAUV (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:20:21 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34990 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753057AbYGFAUU (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:20:20 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Jul 2008 00:20:17 -0000 Received: from p54B213DF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.0.116]) [84.178.19.223] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 06 Jul 2008 02:20:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4107867 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+LRwBpCcSL2+iFphvGbhjH5VxWz9ytX9SI+3oD3d +KlFMKRykRBKGp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <486FE602.3060301@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, it seems that an old verison on the remote site was the problem: On debian/etch git seems to be too old. I upgraded git to the testing version and now I can delete remote branches. But I get another error: $ git push origin :testbranch To ssh://myserver.com/my/path/to/repository - [deleted] testbranch error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: No such file or directory error: Failed to delete Any idea? Thanks, Martin Martin schrieb: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >