I'm running into a problem where it seems that you can't delete branches
from a remote WebDAV/HTTP repository (at least, not using the methods
you would use for a git protocol-based repo). It seems to be looking
for the wrong ref head.
Here's a log of running the commands against github, using the native
git protocol:
$ git checkout --track -b gittest jefferai
Branch gittest set up to track local branch refs/heads/jefferai.
Switched to a new branch "gittest"
$ git push origin gittest
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git@xxxxxxxxxx:jefferai/portage.git
* [new branch] gittest -> gittest
$ git checkout jefferai
Switched to branch "jefferai"
$ git branch -d -r origin/gittest
Deleted remote branch origin/gittest.
$ git push origin :gittest
To git@xxxxxxxxxx:jefferai/portage.git
- [deleted] gittest
Here's the same (near as I could get it) commands against my http-based
server. Note that because of some other weirdness, I delete the local
branch that I push up, then re-fetch it as a remote tracking branch,
then try to do the delete:
$ git checkout --track -b gittest jefferai
Branch gittest set up to track local branch refs/heads/jefferai.
Switched to a new branch "gittest"
$ git push myremote gittest
Fetching remote heads...
refs/
refs/tags/
refs/heads/
updating 'refs/heads/gittest'
from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
to a4641f663ae86739b623a4b5bba7b284e5999549
done
Updating remote server info
$ git checkout jefferai
Switched to branch "jefferai"
$ git branch -d gittest
Deleted branch gittest.
$ git fetch myremote
>From https://[my,server.com]/amarok
* [new branch] gittest -> myremote/gittest
$ git checkout --track -b gittest myremote/gittest
Branch gittest set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/myremote/gittest.
Switched to a new branch "gittest"
$ git checkout jefferai
Switched to branch "jefferai"
$ git branch -r -d myremote/gittest
Deleted branch gittest.
$ git push myremote :gittest
Fetching remote heads...
refs/
refs/tags/
refs/heads/
fatal: Couldn't get https://[my.server.com]/amarok.git/refs/heads/master
for remote symref
The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://[my.server.com]/amarok.git'
Note the third to last line:
Couldn't get https://[my.server.com]/amarok.git/refs/heads/master
On my webserver, in the repository, I have the following in refs/heads:
bookcase amarok.git # ls refs/heads/
gittest jefferai
I do have a "master" branch -- that's where the "jefferai" branch was
spawned from, which the "gittest" branch was spawned from -- but I have
no idea why it's looking for it.
My remote ref for github looks like:
[remote "origin"]
url = git@xxxxxxxxxx:jefferai/portage.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
and my remote ref for my server looks like:
[remote "myremote"]
url = https://[my.server.com]/amarok.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/myremote/*
This smells like a bug, unless there's something I'm doing wrong that I
can't figure out.
Help much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff
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