Question

I created a branch called 6796, then I pushed it to remote, checked it out on another machine, made other edits, pushed it, then merged it with master, and deleted it locally and remotely on the other machine (git push :6796). Now, when I run git pull:

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/6796
user@host:~/path/to/repo$ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

but git pull origin master works normally. It seems to me that there is a 6796 reference somewhere… how to resolve this?

Answer 1

There are probably some commands to resolve it, but I would start by looking in your .git/config file for references to that branch, and removing them.