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From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Accidentally pushed a branch
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:35:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F97587D-CD02-4618-BDD4-7D54D3505F96@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65d5a3d1f2eac2cfca41ab0766695f9a@webmail.orcon.net.nz>



> On Jun 18, 2022, at 11:16 PM, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-06-19 12:00, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> Errr I accidentally pushed to tree-sitter rather than
>> feature/tree-sitter, how can I delete that branch?
> 
> Eli has answered, but as a FYI:
> 
> There's a somewhat obtuse git syntax for deleting things, which
> is to say "push 'nothing' to <branch>" via the more-verbose push
> syntax "git push <remote> <from>:<to>"
> 
> Hence "git push origin :tree-sitter" would delete the tree-sitter
> branch on the origin remote, because the <from> value is empty.
> 
> This may help to make sense of the explanation of the --delete
> option in the git-push man page.

Thanks, TIL :-)

Yuan



      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-20  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-19  0:00 Accidentally pushed a branch Yuan Fu
2022-06-19  6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-20  2:34   ` Yuan Fu
2022-06-19  6:16 ` Phil Sainty
2022-06-20  2:35   ` Yuan Fu [this message]

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