From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "abhisekpan@gmail.com" <abhisekpan@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:22:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5016C2C9.5050904@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjcil3o5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 07/23/2012 08:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "abhisekpan@gmail.com" <abhisekpan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Now I cannot delete this branch. Running:
>> git branch -d --tracking
>> gives an error: unknown option `tracking'
>
> I do not think this is supposed to work, but it does by accident.
>
> $ git branch -d -- --tracking
> Deleted branch --tracking (was 8670e20).
The plumbing command "git update-ref -d refs/heads/--tracking" can also
be used to delete such a branch.
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 17:29 UTC|newest]
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2012-07-23 18:32 ` Cannot delete weirdly named branch abhisekpan
2012-07-23 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-30 17:22 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-07-30 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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