From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: remote branches, and branch names in general
Message-ID: <76718490903031132v592b8368p6355ea2bd0cda4ae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090303161117.GB32079@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads,

Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in
which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-)

> which are your local branches (similarly, "git tag" will only deal with
> stuff in refs/tags). So "git branch origin/foo" will make a ref
> "refs/heads/origin/foo", and "git branch -d origin/foo" will delete
> "refs/heads/origin/foo", not "refs/remotes/origin/foo".

For the latter, use git branch -d -r origin/foo. I'm not sure whether
-r is usable when creating a branch, I haven't tried.

j.