[git-users] permanent branch deletion on origin

2012-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Marans
I've done a cvs2git conversion of a number of cvs modules and was unable to exclude the private working branches, PWB*. I'd like to delete them from the git repos and have tried the following, but the branches live on regardless of the output messages. By that I mean if I clone another instance

Re: [git-users] permanent branch deletion on origin

2012-11-26 Thread William Mizuta
I think that git branch -rD only deletes the local reference to remote branches. If you want to delete the branch in your remote repository, for example PWB1, type git push origin :PWB1 William Seiti Mizuta @williammizuta Desenvolvedor da Caelum On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Jeffrey

Re: [git-users] permanent branch deletion on origin

2012-11-26 Thread Joe Cabezas
you can use git push remote branch_local:branch_remote that push in remote your local branch branch_local into the remote branch branch_remote if you want to delete a branch in remote, you can do this: git push remote : branch_remote it's like to say: please, copy nothing from my local to

Re: [git-users] permanent branch deletion on origin

2012-11-26 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:06:35 -0800 (PST) Jeffrey Marans jmar...@gmail.com wrote: I've done a cvs2git conversion of a number of cvs modules and was unable to exclude the private working branches, PWB*. I'd like to delete them from the git repos and have tried the following, but the branches