Subject: Re: howto handle name clashes

From: Sven Strickroth <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:19:59 +0100

Am 23.03.2012 18:12 schrieb Jeff King:
>> - how to drop a remote tag/branch ("git push origin :test" does not
>> work)
>
> Does "git push origin :heads/foo" (or :tags/foo) not work?

well, ":heads/foo" does not work. Imagine I want to drop a remote branch
which is ambiguous (e.g. a tag with same name exists) on the repository:

"git push origin :food"

gives me: "error: dst refspec food matches more than one."

However, deleting the remote tag (:tags/foo) works with your suggestion.

"git push origin :refs/remotes/origin/foo" showed success (and warning
"remote: warning: Allowing deletion of corrupt ref."), but did not work.

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