Getting fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs

[koppor]

I am executing on git bash on Windows using git version 2.22.0.windows.1. I get following output:

$ git-del-br -a
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs

[tusharmakkar08]

Hey @koppor

Can you share some of your branch names which you intend to delete by this?

Thanks.

[koppor]

There are so many branches here and I don't know, which ones have been merged. The other stackoverflow answers did not help. I hoped that your tool checks for the commitid and if that commit is followed by another commit, it just deletes the branch

$ git branch -a
  HotkeyReworkConsistency
  PRRV
  add-adr
  add-adr-for-mariadb-connector
  add-gitter
  addOracleTest
  auxcleanup
  background-task
  bettersearch
  bibsonomy
  bibsonomy-sz
  cheat-for-release-building
  checkstyle
  circleci20
  dante2018
  deb-and-rpm
  debian_3.6
  debian_3.7
  debian_3.8.1
  debian_4.0
  dependencies
  entryfield
  exchange-ignore-by-disabled
  fastCSL
  feature/consistent-cleanup-settings
  feature/fix-dash-formatter
  feature/gradle-4.8
  feature/xmp-provement

$ git branch --merged
  auxcleanup
  fix-dropbox-sync
  jdk9
  l10n_master
* master
  refine-comment

[woody544]

Check my answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/67336376/2039415, which explains the steps for deleting a remote and local branch.