Re: error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: was remote does not support deleting refs

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2008, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <37fcd2780807061134l341ac676ueb674a976ce15e6f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48700FC2.8080307@gmx.de>

Hi,

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On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:20:18AM +0200, Martin wrote:

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> But I get another error:
> $ git push origin :testbranch
> To ssh://myserver.com/my/path/to/repository
>  - [deleted]         testbranch
> error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: No such file_
> or directory
> error: Failed to delete
>_
> Any idea?

It is harmless. It is just that "git push origin :refs/heads/testbranch" cannot remove your local reference to that branch because you already have removed it by running "git branch -d -r origin/testbranch"

Normally you just run "git push origin :refs/heads/testbranch" without "git branch -d -r origin/testbranch" and then you will not have this error.

Dmitry