Re: How to remove remote branch with git?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:24 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> I just did my first commit with git (Yay!!). However I first made a
> mistake and made a new remote branch called jaap in the cheese
> project.
> I now want to remove that branch because it was a mistake. How do I do this?
> What I read from the web I need to do the following
> 
> git push ssh://jhaitsma git gnome org/git/cheese origin :jaap
>
> However I get the following error messages.
> 
> fatal: refs/remotes/origin/HEAD cannot be resolved to branch.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Should work without the 'origin' in the above. You need to specify where
you want to push to, *either* with the shorthand 'origin' or with an
URL. 

As other people have said you can edit .git/config to switch an existing
checkout to use the ssh URL.

You can also put something like:

 repos["git.gnome.org"] = "ssh://USERNAME git gnome org/git/"

In your ~/.jhbuildrc to to get jhbuild to check things out the right way
the first time. (I haven't actually checked that our modulesets use the
name 'git.gnome.org' for this repository.)

- Owen