Deleting a badly named git branch

Question

I know this isn\'t strictly a programming question, but it is related to git. I accidentally have created a branch in git called --track (I got the order of opt

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where I accidentally ended up with a "-r" branch. I couldn't figure out how to remove it using git commands so I just remove it in the .git folder:

$ cd .git/refs/head $ ls *r -r $ rm "*r"

This solution was only safe because it was the only branch listed that ended in "r" but it did solve the problem...