Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD

["Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> So, you get these errors on the local repo when dealing with the remote
> repo, right? I guess this means two things:
>
> 1) You are deleting a remote branch
>
> 2) Your original report could have been a bit more detailed ;)
>
> In fact, I'm still unsure about your setup and can't reproduce, unless
> "almost every git command" was vastly exaggerated, and Adeodato's
> description matches your setup. Does it?
>

It matches. Sorry if I didn't describe the problem correctly.

"almost every git command" might be exaggerated. Since I am using bash
and abusing completion, I get it in the middle of my shell, and it
confuses bash. I have to clear my terminal to continue writing my
command (C-l)

> If yes then git has basically no choice, unless you want git to leave
> HEAD in place as a detached head. This is related to how the symref is
> resolved, which in turn is related to the issue of removing remote
> branches, which in turn is related to an issue I've been meaning to look
> into quite a while ago... So, reproducibility would be nice.

Not sure I follow, but I think Adeodato mail gives you a more detailed
test case to reproduce.

thanks,

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Marc-André Lureau