This website showed an interesting command, in the output git gives a hint
how to remove a stale.
My first attempt failed, second attempt was successfull:
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin>git remote prune origin/master
fatal: 'origin/master' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal:
Also I see this file
master
in
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin\.git\refs\remotes\origin
Perhaps delete this file to get rid of it ? Is this safe ? :)
There seems to be some hash inside of it.
Bye,
Skybuck.
On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 1:55:41 AM UTC+1 skybuck2000 wrote:
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Why does git for humans exists ?
How is it different from git for windows ?
Is git for humans for more general purposes questions ? or
non-platform-related questions ?
(To original poster: seems like that exe or other services/exes that it
uses needs that framework try installing it, if that
I tried moving this master file elsewhere it had some effect on the graph
but even after moving
git branch -r
still shows it...
so there is more to it...
The hash pointed to some merge of remote/master into master
and then there are some more commits like that.
I will check other git files to
Another one in here:
E:\SourceCode\PascalCoinGit\PascalCoin\.git\logs\refs\remotes\origin
I will try rename both to see what happens
Now didn't help much, I renamed both to originalmaster and then branch -r
showed:
origin/master
origin/originalmaster
So renamed them back to master... hmmm...
This toshiba laptop L670 is starting to annoying me...
The page up/page down keys are all the way at the top of the keyboard above
the numpad.
I constantly end-up pressing * and - in an attempt to scroll.
It could be usefull to give git an option to use * and - for scroll up/down
when for
Just to be clear the local master branch was also renamed to SkybuckMaster.
But origin/master still shows up ?
Kinda strange ?
Any explanation why this is and if it can be completely removed ?
(Maybe destroying old commits might allow to do that, but if it's possible
to do without
You might be in luck, I noticed this weird mingw stuff as well in windows
11 where I installed a new version of git.
The version without any problem that I am using is:
git version 2.29.2.windows.2
For now I believe the problem might be the following:
1. The latest git installer does
