Re: git: how to restore a deleted worktree?

[Stephen Leake]

Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Stephen Leake
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> At some point, that worktree was in a confusing state, so I deleted it,
>> intending to do a fresh checkout. So I repeated the above command, but
>> it complained "branch emacs-26 already exists".
>
> You need 'git worktree prune' to make git remove the bookkeeping info
> about that deleted worktree (possibly you have delete your new tree
> first, not sure how pruning works when you've recreated a new worktree
> in the same place).

I forgot to mention I did that; deleted the tree, ran 'git worktree 'prune'.

But that apparently does not remove the emacs-26 branch.

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-- Stephe