Re: How to use @{-1} with push?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Robert Dailey [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

You can ask rev-parse to give you --symbolic-full-name, error out if
it is empty (i.e. detached HEAD), and otherwise use the result, no?

    $ git checkout next
    $ git checkout master
    $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
    refs/heads/master
    $ git checkout HEAD^0
    $ git checkout master
    $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
    $ exit

And

    $ git push origin :refs/heads/master

would be the fully-spelled out way to remove that branch.

Thanks Junio, I figured there was a command to do that. I tried to do
this using '-' shorthand, but that didn't work. I guess because that's
not really a revision, but a special function of git checkout only.

So the push works with the fully-qualified ref, but not git branch:

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name foo
refs/heads/foo

$ git branch -d refs/heads/foo
error: branch 'refs/heads/foo' not found.

Any reason for this? I'm using git 2.7.4 on windows