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Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 23, 2012, 18:42 UTC
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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).

A more recent git would not let you create such a branch to begin with. Perhaps time to upgrade?

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