Cannot delete a remote branch created unintentionally

Question

$ git branch -a
* SocialAct
  master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/SocialAct
  remotes/origin/social

I want to delete

Answer 1

I had this error (from above):

Thanks. Actually I noticed this solution and tried earlier. But this gives following error... $ git push origin :heads/socail Enter passphrase for key '/h/.ssh/id_rsa': error: unable to push to unqualified destination: heads/socail The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref. error: failed to push some refs to 'git@xxxxxx.git' – Himel May 24 '10 at 9:37

It seemed to have gotten confused about whether or not I had actually deleted it remotely. I worked around it like so:

git push origin HEAD:branch_to_delete

git push origin :branch_to_delete

That worked for me. Using: git version 1.7.3.1.msysgit.0.