Re: Unable to remove git branch

On Friday 29 October 2010 09:56:50 you wrote:

Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

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Sascha Peilicke wrote:

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Hi guys,

I accidentally did an 'git co -b --track origin/foo' ending up with a
local branch '--track'. Sadly, git is unable to remove or rename that
branch because it always interprets it as a parameter.

As a consequence, 'git br -d "--track"' does nothing and 'git br -m
"--track" foo' even renames the current branch, say, master,  to 'foo'.
Any hints on how to get rid of that pesky branch?

BTW please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Try:

$ git br -D -- --track

It really should be:

$ git branch -D -- --track

Thanks, that worked. Maybe '-' should not be allowed as the first char in a 
branch name?
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