question about staging tree branches

[Daniel Baluta]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:15:17PM +0530, Prashant Shah wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are 4 branches in the staging tree
>>
>>   remotes/staging/master
>>   remotes/staging/ralink
>>   remotes/staging/staging-linus
>>   remotes/staging/staging-next
>>
>> Is the staging-linus is what Linus merges and staging-next is merged
>> by linux-next tree ?
>
> No, staging-linus is what goes to Linus for this kernel release, after
> the -rc1 kernel is out.  It is picked up in the linux-next daily
> releases.
>
> staging-next is what goes to Linus for the next kernel release after
> this one.  It too is picked up in the linux-next daily releases.
>
> ralink is an old branch of mine that I need to delete that has an
> obsolete ralink driver in it that I was working on cleaning up.  Anyone
> remember what the command to delete a remote branch is?  I always need
> to look it up...

According to Google ([1]) this should be:
# git push <remote> :<remote_branch>

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://yuji.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/git-delete-remote-branch/