Re: remote branches, and branch names in general

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads,

Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in
which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-)

which are your local branches (similarly, "git tag" will only deal with
stuff in refs/tags). So "git branch origin/foo" will make a ref
"refs/heads/origin/foo", and "git branch -d origin/foo" will delete
"refs/heads/origin/foo", not "refs/remotes/origin/foo".

For the latter, use git branch -d -r origin/foo. I'm not sure whether
-r is usable when creating a branch, I haven't tried.

j.