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unable to delete branch with forgotten bisect

From
Sstsp <stsp2@yandex.ru>
Date
Feb 21, 2025, 10:03 UTC
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<cae34516-5437-49d3-8d39-16f4059a81a8@yandex.ru>
Hi.

Trying to delete the branch, I was getting this error:

error: cannot delete branch '<branch_name>' used by worktree at '<wtree_path>'

It wasn't used by that work-tree directly, so I was very confused. It appears this branch had the forgotten bisect.

It would be very good if git can write a more prominent message for such a case, like:

error: cannot delete branch '<branch_name>' because bisect is in progress
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  1. stspFeb 21, 2025

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