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Cannot delete a remote branch created unintentionally

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Deleting remote branches is described in detail over here.

Noufal Ibrahim 2010-05-24 09:27:09

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+2 A:

git push origin :social
But you need to delete locally as well, before or after.

Arkaitz Jimenez 2010-05-24 09:31:45

Thanks. Actually I noticed this solution and tried earlier. But this gives following error...$ git push origin :heads/socailEnter passphrase for key '/h/.ssh/id_rsa':error: unable to push to unqualified destination: heads/socailThe destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote norbegins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref.error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]'

Himel 2010-05-24 09:37:06

I have deleted locally first, with command:$ git branch -d -r origin/socialor, did I do it wrong?

Himel 2010-05-24 09:38:17

It doesn't matter that you delete locally or not, did u notice your last example has a typo socail/social ?

Arkaitz Jimenez 2010-05-24 09:40:17

May I ask how would you do it, so it would go right?

Himel 2010-05-24 09:42:38

Right, there was a typo, actually I wrote it here. but in actual console I applied it right.

Himel 2010-05-24 09:46:29

Last time I had to do that it was exactly like that, in any case, the error message looks like the branch is not there any more, have you tried a to clone the repo and see if the branch is still there?

Arkaitz Jimenez 2010-05-24 09:53:47

I shall try that. Good hint and thanks. Actually after applying the command, I have been verifying the end result in the repository URL (web) and the branch is still there. So I could not be sure that I could delete it.

Himel 2010-05-24 09:59:32

At this point I'd check if the web interface is properly updated, or still showing cached content. Try to do a commit and see if the web reflects it.

Arkaitz Jimenez 2010-05-24 10:01:21

If this isn't working, it's also possible that the remote repo is set up to not allow remote branch deletions. All the repos I administer are configured that way (because deleting a branch allows you to get around non-fast-forward update restrictions :-P ). In such a case the only way to delete the branch is to go to the remote repository and do it there.

ebneter 2010-05-26 02:32:28

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