Re: remotely deleting a branch

2009/6/1 jean-luc malet [off-list ref]:

hi!
I created a remote branch by doing
$ git push origin mynewbranch
I done some work on mynewbranch, commited, pushed changes to origin,
merged it to master and pushed to origin and deleted the mynewbranch
localy because I don't need it anymore
now I want to "undo" the git push origin mynewbranch ie remotely
delete the branch from the repository
I tried git push --mirror but it deleted all remote branches that I
didn't worked on... I don't want to have it be a mirror... but
something like
$ git branch -r -d origin/mynewbranch
$ git push
  ---> deleting origin/mynewbranch

how shall I do that?

Yeah, it's pretty confusing on how to delete a remote branch.  The
magic command is:

git push origin -f :mynewbranch

Hopefully someone will figure out a way to make git a bit more
intuitive in this respect.  Maybe a remote option for git branch -d or
something.
John