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From: Jingzhao Ou <jingzhao.ou@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to delete remote branch with a strange name
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:10:14 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20101228T170808-756@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2hbdy9top.fsf@whitebox.home

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> Jingzhao Ou <jingzhao.ou <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I guess somehow, git is confused by "origin/dev/main" and 
> > "origin/remotes/origin/dev/main". Especially, it cannot identify the latter
> > properly.
> 
> Try fully qualifying the remote branch (beginning with refs/heads/).
> 
> Andreas.
> 

Hi, Andreas,

Yes, using the absolute path works like a champ! 

git push origin :refs/heads/remotes/origin/dev/main

Thanks a lot for your help!

Jingzhao

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 16:10 UTC|newest]

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

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