From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:42:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch
Message-ID: <7vsjcil3o5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGhmpEGEZchXc4DqZ21BAKxf6_mHRp=TOUH8s=GG0vPscz1kfg@mail.gmail.com>

"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?