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From: Jingzhao Ou <jingzhao.ou@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Unable to delete remote branch with a strange name
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:06:10 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20101228T080344-503@post.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi, all,

When I checked out a git repository, it has the following remote branches:

$ git br -r
 origin/HEAD -> origin/master
 origin/master
 origin/dev/main
 origin/remotes/origin/dev/main

I tried to delete the last branch with a strange long name. Using "git push" to 
delete it would fail.

$ git push origin :remotes/origin/dev/main
Pushing to jou@xx•xx.xx.xx:gsfw/omu_fw
error: dst refspec remotes/origin/dev/main matches more than one.
error: failed to push some refs to 'jou@xx•xx.xx.xx:gsfw/omu_fw'

However, I can create a new branch from it:

$ git co -b jou.temp origin/remotes/origin/dev/main
Branch jou.temp3 set up to track remote branch remotes/origin/dev/main
from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'jou.temp3'

But again, I cannot push any changes in "jou.temp3" branch to that weird branch:

$ git push origin HEAD:remotes/origin/dev/main
error: dst refspec remotes/origin/dev/main matches more than one.
error: failed to push some refs to 'jou@xx•xx.xx.xx:gsfw/omu_fw'

I guess somehow, git is confused by "origin/dev/main" and 
"origin/remotes/origin/dev/main". Especially, it cannot identify the latter
properly.

I wonder if any one can give me some suggestions on how to deal with this 
situation.

Thanks a lot!
Jingzhao

next             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-28  7:06 Jingzhao Ou [this message]
2010-12-28  8:40 ` Unable to delete remote branch with a strange name Andreas Schwab
2010-12-28 16:10   ` Jingzhao Ou
2010-12-28 17:59     ` Tomas Carnecky

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