Merge branch 'master' into lj/refs

* master: (72 commits)
  runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
  grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
  grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
  Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
  An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
  Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
  gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
  git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
  Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
  Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
  Use const for interpolate arguments
  git-archive: update documentation
  Deprecate merge-recursive.py
  gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
  Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
  Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
  git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
  Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
  git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
  git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
  ...

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-branch.sh b/git-branch.sh
index 4379a0721..bf84b3069 100755
--- a/git-branch.sh
+++ b/git-branch.sh
@@ -111,6 +111,16 @@ rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$head") || exit
 git-check-ref-format "heads/$branchname" ||
 	die "we do not like '$branchname' as a branch name."
 
+if [ -d "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$branchname" ]
+then
+	for refdir in `cd "$GIT_DIR" && \
+		find "refs/heads/$branchname" -type d | sort -r`
+	do
+		rmdir "$GIT_DIR/$refdir" || \
+		    die "Could not delete '$refdir', there may still be a ref there."
+	done
+fi
+
 prev=''
 if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$branchname"
 then