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From: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
To: jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remotely deleting a branch
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:59:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A23B481.6000302@isy.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A23AE5A.4040804@isy.liu.se>

This should of course have been cc to the list too...

Gustaf Hendeby wrote:
> jean-luc malet wrote:
>> 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?
>> thanks
>> JLM
>>
> 
> Hi Jean-Luc!
> 
> Have a look at the help for push, you will find
> 
>   git push origin :mynewbranch
> 
> to be what you are looking for.  It is listed quite far down as an example.
> 
> /Gustaf
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 10:16 remotely deleting a branch jean-luc malet
     [not found] ` <4A23AE5A.4040804@isy.liu.se>
2009-06-01 10:59   ` Gustaf Hendeby [this message]
2009-06-01 11:02 ` John Tapsell

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