{pts/1}% stg branch --delete --force tmp Deleting branch "tmp" ... stg branch: Branch "tmp" not initialised {pts/1}% stg branch --clone tmp Checking for changes in the working directory ... done Cloning current branch to "tmp" ... stg branch: tmp already initialized
I am not sure exactly how it happened. Using 0.14.3 and up-to-date GIY recently I started to get "git failed with code 128" for large number of operations. Apparently this resulted in sort of "ghost" branch that cannot be deleted but cannot be worked with either
{pts/1}% stg branch -c tmp
Checking for changes in the working directory ... done
Recording as a local branch
Branch "tmp" created
{pts/1}% stg branch -l
Available branches:
s initscripts |
s local-mdv |
master |
mdv | > s tmp |
{pts/1}% stg branch local-mdv
Checking for changes in the working directory ... done
Switching to branch "local-mdv" ... done
{pts/1}% stg branch --delete tmp
Deleting branch "tmp" ...
stg branch: git failed with code 128
{pts/1}% stg branch -l
Available branches:
s initscripts | > s local-mdv |
master |
mdv |
{pts/1}% stg branch --clone tmp
Checking for changes in the working directory ... done
Cloning current branch to "tmp" ...
stg branch: tmp already initialized And now I have
{pts/1}% cat .git/config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = ssh://git.mandriva.com/projects/networkmanager.git
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "initscripts.stgit"]
parentbranch = mdv
stackformatversion = 2
[branch "local-mdv.stgit"]
parentbranch = mdv
stackformatversion = 2
[remote "upstream"]
url =
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*
[branch "tmp.stgit"]
parentbranch = local-mdv
stackformatversion = 2 I would expect, stgit branch --delete --force to allow cleanups from such cases.