On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You can ask rev-parse to give you --symbolic-full-name, error out if
>> it is empty (i.e. detached HEAD), and otherwise use the result, no?
>>
>> $ git checkout next
>> $ git checkout master
>> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
>> refs/heads/master
>> $ git checkout HEAD^0
>> $ git checkout master
>> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
>> $ exit
>>
>> And
>>
>> $ git push origin :refs/heads/master
>>
>> would be the fully-spelled out way to remove that branch.
>
> Thanks Junio, I figured there was a command to do that. I tried to do
> this using '-' shorthand, but that didn't work. I guess because that's
> not really a revision, but a special function of git checkout only.
So the push works with the fully-qualified ref, but not git branch:
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name foo
refs/heads/foo
$ git branch -d refs/heads/foo
error: branch 'refs/heads/foo' not found.
Any reason for this? I'm using git 2.7.4 on windows
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