From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "abhisekpan\@gmail.com" <abhisekpan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:42:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjcil3o5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGhmpEGEZchXc4DqZ21BAKxf6_mHRp=TOUH8s=GG0vPscz1kfg@mail.gmail.com> (abhisekpan@gmail.com's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:32:48 -0400")
"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).
A more recent git would not let you create such a branch to begin
with. Perhaps time to upgrade?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-23 18:42 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <CAGhmpEFg2ZcwqO=wDNPLfPCnrobq4oOcwvFCm27vrEuiES2XbQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-23 18:32 ` Cannot delete weirdly named branch abhisekpan
2012-07-23 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-07-30 17:22 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-30 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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