Re: Cannot delete weirdly named branch

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

On 07/23/2012 08:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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"abhisekpan@gmail.com" [off-list ref] writes:

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Now I cannot delete this branch. Running:
git branch -d --tracking
gives an error: unknown option `tracking'

I do not think this is supposed to work, but it does by accident.

     $ git branch -d -- --tracking
     Deleted branch --tracking (was 8670e20).

The plumbing command "git update-ref -d refs/heads/--tracking" can
also be used to delete such a branch.

Note that once you started using the plumbing you are assumed to
know what you are doing.  "update-ref -d" does not offer the "you
will be losing these commits" safety, and it will not remove
configuration items for "branch.--tracking.*" keys.  You would want
to remove them yourself if you want to emulate "git branch -d".