I have bit of a difficulty in deleting a local ref branch(refs/notes/origin/commits). I was able to delete the branch(refs/notes/origin/commits) in the remote repository using the command
git push origin :refs/notes/origin/commits
but when i try to delete the same branch on my local repository, i get the below error
[User@centos Clone]# git branch -rd refs/notes/origin/commits
error: remote branch 'refs/notes/origin/commits' not found.
Any suggestions?
Just do
git branch -d commits
to delete the local branch.
Use the -D switch to delete it irrespective of its merged status.
Use
git update-ref -d refs/notes/origin/commits
to delete the ref.
You can also hard-delete it as mentioned in other answers with
rm -rf .git/refs/notes
You have notes in your git repository, you can delete one note with
git notes remove <commit>
For deleting of all notes you have to remove the 'notes' directory
rm -rf .git/refs/notes
or you can use the git update-ref command.
git update-ref -d refs/notes/commits
you can just delete the file out of the .git directory. From the repository root, a command like this will get it:
rm .git/refs/tags/refs/original/refs/heads/master
The path may be slightly different if the git-tag command failed, so you may want to cd .git/refs and find the offending head by trial-and-error. Deleting the file will remove the reference from your local repository.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18506456/git-how-to-delete-a-local-ref-branch