On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> 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.
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