From: abhisekpan@gmail.com <abhisekpan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:32:48 GMT
Subject: Cannot delete weirdly named branch
Message-ID: <CAGhmpEGEZchXc4DqZ21BAKxf6_mHRp=TOUH8s=GG0vPscz1kfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGhmpEFg2ZcwqO=wDNPLfPCnrobq4oOcwvFCm27vrEuiES2XbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am a new user to git and I found an interesting behavior in git. I
am not sure if this is a bug, but I thought I would report this
anyway!

So I can create a local branch called "--tracking" like this:
git checkout -b --tracking origin/somebranch
I messed up the syntax while trying to create a tracking branch, but
this resulted in a local branch called "--tracking".

Now I cannot delete this branch. Running:
git branch -d --tracking
gives an error: unknown option `tracking'

Using quotes around the name does not help. Is there another command I
can use to delete this branch?

Thank you!
--
Abhisek
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