Re: Fwd: Issue with Git Branch

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2020, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20200113001143.GA13099@syl.local>
In-Reply-To: <29742805-4992-47E6-9889-F55F5EFBBFF1@clicktherapeutics.com>

Hi Jude,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:01:04PM -0500, Jude Guan Wang wrote:

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> Hi, all:
> 	I noticed something weird with my git command. In my local
> 	environment I seem to have a branch named `-D`:
>
> 	And I don’t remember how I was able to create a branch like that. I
> 	tried to do git branch -D/-d this branch but seems not working. I’m
> 	assuming the branch infos were kept in .git folder so my question is
> 	if there’s anyway I could remove this invalid branch from that
> 	folder? My git version is 2.24.0. Thanks for any help in advance.

You can delete oddly-named branches by passing the end-of-options marker to 'git branch', like so:

  $ git branch -D --end-of-options -D

(In fact, '--end-of-options' isn't strictly necessary here, and using '--' as in 'git branch -D -- -D' will work as well).

If you do find a reproducible way to create branches named '-D' or similar, please do let us know, as these are not intended to be valid branch names in general.

Thanks, Taylor