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Is there a bug with this excercice ? I tried many option but it won’t validate 
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Yes, I tried refreshing many times and it wouldn’t validate my same “git branch -d fencing”
And the worst part is when you Get Solution, it just erases everything and checks out the task… Major bug, come on CodeCademy.
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Same issue with the “git branch -d fencing”
There was another branch - “checkout”:
$ git branch
checkout
*master
After removing the “checkout”-branch the exercise is completed:
$ git branch -d checkout
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Seems you still have a branch called “resume.txt”, most likely created by mistake…
While on “master” branch , run :
git branch -d resume.txt
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ok so um in the code type in git branch, after that you will most likely see another branch… delete the branch that has white text.
Hope this helps!
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You should only have one branch: master.
remove the others if any
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you have another branch called “new_branch”. delete that too
This resolved my problem. Thanks so much!
I had this problem too and i resolve by using the below syntax
$git branch -d fencing_branch
Deleted branch fencing_branch (was 79a1cc5).
i have deleted all the branch it indicates there is only master but i can’t move ahead
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