From: Lyons, Roy Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:26:18 GMT Subject: deletion of branch seems to modify tag as well? Message-ID: <58EAA08AF8232344ADDB2E31D4996BFD39F271BA@SMRPEXCHIDAG2.prod.ad.merc.chicago.cme.com> $ git push origin :ABRANCHNAME remote: Firing Pre - receive hook remote: remote: remote: Firing Post receive hook remote: remote: Branch is ABRANCHNAME -- not creating Trigger file since this is not _int branch remote: error: Trying to write ref refs/tags/ABRANCHNAME!SN-BL-20130605_100513_04363 with nonexistent object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 remote: fatal: refs/tags/ABRANCHNAME!SN-BL-20130605_100513_04363: cannot update the ref To ssh://git@ourgitserver/repositoryname.git - [deleted] ABRANCHNAME I would not expect this behavior. Is git attempting to modify the tags associated to the HEAD commit on the branch in addition to the branch? If so, I would like to consider this a bug report... Thanks, Roy Lyons