From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81108 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New branch for No Gnus Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87bopnvezm.fsf@gnus.org> <87k44bh84h.fsf@dod.no> <87aa55cctr.fsf@gnus.org> <87aa54riih.fsf@dod.no> <87bopkc0dq.fsf@gnus.org> <87hazb26fm.fsf@dod.no> <87ty3b6c0d.fsf@gnus.org> <87y5snlnwz.fsf@FreeBSD.org> <87obtj4sqf.fsf@gnus.org> <878vknh9kq.fsf@dod.no> <87zkd31o9p.fsf@gnus.org> <87hazbl8ld.fsf@FreeBSD.org> <87mx93xsmv.fsf@gnus.org> <87y5sn1eet.fsf@gnus.org> <87ty3b1dw9.fsf@gnus.org> <87hazayad4.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328102844 10430 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2012 13:27:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:27:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29389@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 01 14:27:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDX-0006ck-5p for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDL-00041q-2K; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:27:07 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDK-00041g-2q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:27:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDG-0003Wl-7m for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:27:05 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDE-0006U2-R8 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsaDB-0006ON-Ak for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1f7w1ylAh8mkLHPb8XuuQ0QnSdE= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81108 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang writes: >> git push origin :ma-gnus > larsi@rusty:~/mgnus$ git push origin :ma-gnus > remote: error: denying ref deletion for refs/heads/ma-gnus Some possible causes here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5723511/how-do-i-remove-a-remote-branch-when-i-get-an-error Summary of possible causes: 1. privileges of the user 2. remote repo has "denyDeletes = true" in its config There is a brute force workaround at the end of the StackOverflow thread: log in on the remote server, and to "branch -D ma-gnus" in the repository there