Re: How to use @{-1} with push?

[Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@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.

So the push works with the fully-qualified ref, but not git branch:

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name foo
refs/heads/foo

$ git branch -d refs/heads/foo
error: branch 'refs/heads/foo' not found.

Any reason for this? I'm using git 2.7.4 on windows