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Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch

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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Jul 30, 2012, 17:22 UTC
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On 07/23/2012 08:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "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).

The plumbing command "git update-ref -d refs/heads/--tracking" can also be used to delete such a branch.

Michael
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