git pull displays “fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/xxxx” and hangs up

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 the master, and deleted it -

Answer 1

I just ran into a similar issue when I tried to commit to a newly created repo with a "." in it's name. I've seen several others have different issues with putting a "." in the repo name.

I just re-created the repo and

replaced "." with "-"

There may be other ways to resolve this, but this was a quick fix for me since it was a new repo.