Re: GIT - error: no such remote ref refs/heads/TestBranch

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2006, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64c7pmlw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <89b129c60612191233s5a7f36f2hd409c4b9a2bbbc5c@mail.gmail.com>

"Sean Kelley" <sean.v.kelley@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if someone could help me.  I had a branch on our
> remote GIT server called TestBranch.  I logged into the Remote server
> and ran:
>
> <from remote server>
> git branch -D TestBranch
>
> But in my local clone:
>
> kelleys@oifig:~/Work/kernel$ git pull origin
> kelleys@git.example.com's password:
> error: no such remote ref refs/heads/TestBranch
> Fetch failure: git+ssh://git.example.com/data/git/proj/kernel/mh.git
> kelleys@oifig:~/Work/kernel$
>
> Any ideas how to correct this?

If you know remote does not have it, then probably not fetching from it would be a good idea.

Look at your local $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin (or [remote "origin"] section in $GIT_DIR/config) and remove the refspec that tells git to fetch it.

In $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin, you may want to remove a like like this:

	Pull: refs/heads/TestBranch:<something>

If it is coming from $GIT_DIR/config, it would probably look like:

	[remote "origin"]
        	fetch = refs/heads/TestBranch:<something>

and you would want to remove the "fetch = " line.