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Paddy Pang
Paddy Pang

Reputation: 53

why git branch -D does not delete local branch

    $ git checkout -B test 
    $ # change anything
    $ git branch
    $  master
    $  * test
    $ git commit -am 'updated' 
    $ git checkout master 
    $ git branch
    $  * master
    $  test
    $ git branch -D test 
    $ git branch
    $  * master
    $ git checkout test 
    $ git branch
    $  master
    $  * test

why no error? like error: pathspec 'test' did not match any file(s) known to git

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94397

From

$ git branch -D test
$ git branch
$  * master

we can see the branch was deleted. The next command

$ git checkout test

recreates the branch from remote-tracking ref origin/test. See the docs on git checkout:

If <branch> is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat as equivalent to

$ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>

Upvotes: 3

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