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Gabrie
Gabrie

Reputation: 579

Have I made a mistake on the master and a branch?

I'm a novice on git/github and I suspect I might have made a mistake with a branch without realising it until now. A few months ago I managed to get everything up and running with git and everything still seems to work fine.

Now, for the first time I want to create a branche and when reading the docs, I noticed that my config might already have a branche that I never intended to create. I think that I only need a master branche right now and then for the new feature I want to test I will create a branche.

Could someone tell me if I'm currently working correctly with just a Master or do I also have a branche without knowing it?

When I run: git status

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

When I run: git branch -r

  origin/master
  origin/—set-upstream-to=origin/master

When I run: git remote -v

origin  [email protected]:TheGabeMan/NestReporter.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:TheGabeMan/NestReporter.git (push)

When I run: git branch

* master
  —set-upstream-to=origin/master

So I'm wondering if "--set-upstream-to master origin/master" is an incorrect parameter I used which accidentaly converted to a name or is it the correct naming for the remote master?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

Gabrie
Gabrie

Reputation: 579

SOLVED: Tried a few more deletes and eventually solved it by running git fetch -p.

When I now run git branch -a, the result is:

* master
  remotes/origin/master

Looks good to me now :-)

Upvotes: 0

palimpsestor
palimpsestor

Reputation: 1069

Yes it looks like you have inadvertently create both a local and remote branch named "—set-upstream-to=origin/master".

To delete that branch locally, you should be able to run git branch -d "—set-upstream-to=origin/master"

To delete the remote branch, as long as you are using a relatively recent version of git, the most straightforward thing to do is git push origin --delete "—set-upstream-to=origin/master".

Upvotes: 2

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