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Akshay Khale
Akshay Khale

Reputation: 8351

Unable to fetch the branch since the reference branches are deleted

I was trying to pull git branch bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix using following command git fetch && git checkout bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix

but I am getting following error:

akshaykhale$ git fetch && git checkout bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/connection-failure-bugfix': 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix' exists; cannot create 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/connection-failure-bugfix'
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 ! [new branch]          bugfix/connection-failure-bugfix -> origin/bugfix/connection-failure-bugfix  (unable to update local ref)
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/migration-datatype-bugfix': 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix' exists; cannot create 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/migration-datatype-bugfix'
 ! [new branch]          bugfix/migration-datatype-bugfix                  -> origin/bugfix/migration-datatype-bugfix  (unable to update local ref)
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix': 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix' exists; cannot create 'refs/remotes/origin/bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix'
 ! [new branch]          bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix                           -> origin/bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix  (unable to update local ref)

Possible reason could be (just a guess):

I am fetching bugfix/validator-integration-bugfix branch which is created from other branches which were not cloned on my development system.

any way to fix the issue

Thanks in advance!!!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 656

Answers (2)

Akshay Khale
Akshay Khale

Reputation: 8351

Following worked for me:

git fetch --prune

With git prune it pulled all the branches, I could switch to the required branch and able to push in the commits without any issues.

Thank you @MarkAdelsberger

Upvotes: 0

Will Taylor
Will Taylor

Reputation: 1759

Someone on your team has created a branch named bugfix and pushed it to origin/bugfix. Git will not allow you to create a branch with a name of the format origin/bugfix/* because of this.

I'm guessing the branch was named bugfix by mistake, so the solution is to give this branch a more descriptive name.

To rename the bugfix branch locally:

git branch -m bugfix bugfix/sensible-name

Then to rename it on your remote:

git push origin :bugfix bugfix/sensible-name

Then set the renamed local branch to track the renamed remote branch:

git push origin -u bugfix/sensible-name

Upvotes: 2

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