Git: how to remove root commit

Question

I have following situation in my local Git repository:
master: A---B---C <-HEAD
(no name): D

so there is special commit "D" on separate branch, not relating on any other branch. I want to delete the "(no name)" branch. When trying to revert "D", I get: "Cannot revert a root commit".

Thank you for help.

Answer 1

如果没有分支引用D，则git在进行垃圾回收时会删除该引用。

Answer 2

What Casey said. Run "git gc" and see if it still exists. The other thing you might want to try is create a new branch at D and then remove the branch with git -D