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From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Bug in `git branch --delete main` when on other orphan branch
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:46:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAESOdVBpsbJ0obD=qDjHBJg-wwWUL5sQ-7X_h13Vw39Q9QUzHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I did this:
git init test
cd test
echo a > file
git add file
git commit -m a
git checkout --orphan other
git branch --delete main

The last command fails with:
fatal: Couldn't look up commit object for HEAD

That's a bug, right? I can of course work around it with `rm
.git/refs/heads/main`.

             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29  5:46 Martin von Zweigbergk [this message]
2022-11-01 10:15 ` Bug in `git branch --delete main` when on other orphan branch Jeff King
2022-11-01 15:31   ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2022-11-01 20:12   ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 20:14     ` Bug in `git branch --delete main` when on other orphan brancht Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 21:45       ` Jeff King
2022-11-02  0:59         ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 20:32     ` [PATCH] branch: gracefully handle '-d' on detached HEAD Taylor Blau
2022-11-02  5:27       ` [PATCH v2] branch: gracefully handle '-d' on orphan HEAD Jeff King
2022-11-04  1:26         ` Rubén Justo
2022-11-04  5:36           ` Jeff King
2022-11-06 22:22             ` Rubén Justo

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