On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads, Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-) > which are your local branches (similarly, "git tag" will only deal with > stuff in refs/tags). So "git branch origin/foo" will make a ref > "refs/heads/origin/foo", and "git branch -d origin/foo" will delete > "refs/heads/origin/foo", not "refs/remotes/origin/foo". For the latter, use git branch -d -r origin/foo. I'm not sure whether -r is usable when creating a branch, I haven't tried. j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html