Deleting a badly named git branch

Question

I know this isn\'t strictly a programming question, but it is related to git. I accidentally have created a branch in git called --track (I got the order of opt

Answer 1

I'm using msysgit 1.7.0.2 and the suggested solution doesn't work:

git branch -D -- --track # doesn't work

No error is reported, but the branch still remains. I ended up forcibly removing the branch via:

rm .git/refs/heads/--track