From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:22:17 +0200 Message-ID: <5016C2C9.5050904@alum.mit.edu> References: <7vsjcil3o5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "abhisekpan@gmail.com" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 30 19:29:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvtmZ-0000Ag-Ub for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:29:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754158Ab2G3R3X (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:29:23 -0400 Received: from ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-4.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.15]:43418 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753631Ab2G3R3W (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:29:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:29:22 EDT X-AuditID: 1207440f-b7fde6d00000095c-a8-5016c2cceeae Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id F9.71.02396.CC2C6105; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:22:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.101.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.135]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id q6UHMIvc018446 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:22:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <7vsjcil3o5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFprNKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHvmkFiAwfxOdovFXT4WXVe6mSwa eq8wOzB77Jx1l93j4iVlj8+b5AKYo7htkhJLyoIz0/P07RK4M7Y8+8RYcImlYuPtVsYGxpvM XYycHBICJhITT05nhbDFJC7cW8/WxcjFISRwmVFi8vJHUM5xJommKb0sIFW8AtoSGzv+gNks AqoSfXMvgdlsAroSi3qamUBsUYEQiTXfpjBC1AtKnJz5BKxGREBNYmLbITCbWcBNov3LXzYQ W1hAX2Ll0aOsEMv2M0rsOfUHbBCngJnE4YPvgBIcQA3WEt92F0H0yktsfzuHeQKjwCwkK2Yh VM1CUrWAkXkVo1xiTmmubm5iZk5xarJucXJiXl5qka6JXm5miV5qSukmRkjg8u9g7Fovc4hR gINRiYfX8LJogBBrYllxZe4hRkkOJiVRXqMtYgFCfEn5KZUZicUZ8UWlOanFhxglOJiVRHgn iQDleFMSK6tSi/JhUtIcLErivOpL1P2EBNITS1KzU1MLUotgsjIcHEoSvIsPAjUKFqWmp1ak ZeaUIKSZODhBhnNJiRSn5qWkFiWWlmTEgyI1vhgYqyApHqC900HaeYsLEnOBohCtpxh1OVb9 fnKbUYglLz8vVUqcdydIkQBIUUZpHtwKWJp6xSgO9LEwbyxIFQ8wxcFNegW0hAloSYgD2JKS RISUVAOj5GSJFg+TQylFIbuj41kneXz1/fg38+5ldaetJvcdqxY+5fvN5PTe6ELn2ymOd/bv 2Pye82p62sGqY2kG5U3XO20P7tn1cLfFA4c7LDNdX6zyW2Xffq/l/51+qXc+W21f Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 07/23/2012 08:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "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 -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/