deleting remote gitolite branch

[Howard Miller]

I'm having trouble deleting a remote branch in my Gitolite repository.
Searching didn't seem to imply anything different from standard remote
practice, so I did:

git push myremote :my_branch

And got...

remote: + refs/heads/my_branch projectname myname DENIED by fallthru
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/my_branch
To g...@my.server.com:projectname.git
! [remote rejected] my_branch (hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'g...@my.server.com:projectname.git'

(Names changed to protect the guilty)

Any thoughts much appreciated!

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Howard Miller
<how...@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:

> remote: + refs/heads/my_branch projectname myname DENIED by fallthru

you have only RW permissions on the repo/branch. You need RW+
permissions to delete a ref.

(that's not the whole story but it should do for now, you can read the
rest of it in the docs)

[Howard Miller]

Ahh... I knew it would be something stupid on my part. Thanks (again)
for your patience.