Delete broken branch in git

Question

I have created branch with \"git checkout -b mybranch\". It seems that something went wrong, and now I can\'t delete it using \"git branch -D mybranch\". It says: error: bra

Answer 1

I used git update-ref -d refs/heads/ to fix this issue. Presumably, this does the same thing as what Rup suggests in the selected answer except it's interfaced via Git's CLI.