When deleting remote git branch “error: unable to push to unqualified destination”

Question

I\'m trying to delete a remote git branch with

git push origin :my_remote_branch

and getting:

error: unable to push to unq         


        

Answer 1

Had this same issue, I manually edited my ./.git/config file to include:

[branch "branchName"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/branchName

Which resulted into: error: src refspec branchName matches more than one. This I fixed by running $git tag -d branchName. After which I was able to push the new branch to upstream.