From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: remotely deleting a branch
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:02:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650906010402t792df314v1ed632e79f42bca7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1de9d39c0906010316v657f2624i3f16b8b5bea73122@mail.gmail.com>
2009/6/1 jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>:
> hi!
> I created a remote branch by doing
> $ git push origin mynewbranch
> I done some work on mynewbranch, commited, pushed changes to origin,
> merged it to master and pushed to origin and deleted the mynewbranch
> localy because I don't need it anymore
> now I want to "undo" the git push origin mynewbranch ie remotely
> delete the branch from the repository
> I tried git push --mirror but it deleted all remote branches that I
> didn't worked on... I don't want to have it be a mirror... but
> something like
> $ git branch -r -d origin/mynewbranch
> $ git push
> ---> deleting origin/mynewbranch
>
> how shall I do that?
Yeah, it's pretty confusing on how to delete a remote branch. The
magic command is:
git push origin -f :mynewbranch
Hopefully someone will figure out a way to make git a bit more
intuitive in this respect. Maybe a remote option for git branch -d or
something.
John
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 10:16 remotely deleting a branch jean-luc malet
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2009-06-01 10:59 ` Gustaf Hendeby
2009-06-01 11:02 ` John Tapsell [this message]
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