Re: How do I delete a remote branch with a period in the name?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 3, 2012, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vehosvdku.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m23959e0qp.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

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> "jonsmirl@gmail.com" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> jonsmirl@smirl2:/home/apps/florida/lpc31xx$ git push origin :fl.stg
>> error: unable to push to unqualified destination: fl.stg
>> The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor
>> begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref.
>> error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:jonsmirl/lpc31xx.git'
>> jonsmirl@smirl2:/home/apps/florida/lpc31xx$
>>
>> jonsmirl@smirl2:/home/apps/florida/lpc31xx$ git branch -r
>>   linus/master
>>   origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>>   origin/bar.stgit
>>   origin/dt-test
>>   origin/fl.stgit
>>   origin/foo.stgit
>>   origin/lpc313x-stg
>>   origin/lpc313x-stg.stgit
>>   origin/master
>>   origin/master.stgit
>>   origin/temp.stgit
>>   origin/v3.4-stg
>>   origin/v3.4-stg.stgit
>>   origin/v3.5-stg
>>   origin/v3.5-stg.stgit
>
> There doesn't appear to be a remote branch with that name.

More importantly, there was nothing in Jon's message to convince us that "branch -r" outputis telling us the current state of the remote. Showing "ls-remote" output would have been better.