{"id":3830,"date":"2022-08-20T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-delete-a-git-branch-locally-and-remotely\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:30:12","slug":"solved-how-do-i-delete-a-git-branch-locally-and-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-delete-a-git-branch-locally-and-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"(Solved) How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-2003515\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"2003515\" data-parentid=\"2003505\" data-score=\"24413\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<h1>Executive Summary<\/h1>\n<pre class=\"lang-sh prettyprint-override\"><code>$ git push -d &lt;remote_name&gt; &lt;branchname&gt;\n$ git branch -d &lt;branchname&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> In most cases, <code>&lt;remote_name&gt;<\/code> will be <code>origin<\/code>.<\/p>\n<h1>Delete Local Branch<\/h1>\n<p>To delete the <em><strong>local<\/strong><\/em> branch use one of the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ git branch -d &lt;branch_name&gt;\n$ git branch -D &lt;branch_name&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>The <code>-d<\/code> option is an alias for <code>--delete<\/code>, which only deletes the branch if it has already been fully merged in its upstream branch.<\/li>\n<li>The <code>-D<\/code> option is an alias for <code>--delete --force<\/code>, which deletes the branch &#8220;irrespective of its merged status.&#8221; [Source: <code>man git-branch<\/code>]<\/li>\n<li>As of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git\/git\/blob\/master\/Documentation\/RelNotes\/2.3.0.txt\">Git v2.3<\/a>, <code>git branch -d<\/code> (delete) learned to honor the <code>-f<\/code> (force) flag.<\/li>\n<li>You will receive an error if you try to delete the currently selected branch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Delete Remote Branch<\/h1>\n<p>As of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gitster\/git\/blob\/master\/Documentation\/RelNotes\/1.7.0.txt\">Git v1.7.0<\/a>, you can delete a <em><strong>remote<\/strong><\/em> branch using<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ git push &lt;remote_name&gt; --delete &lt;branch_name&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>which might be easier to remember than<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ git push &lt;remote_name&gt; :&lt;branch_name&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>which was added in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gitster\/git\/blob\/master\/Documentation\/RelNotes\/1.5.0.txt\">Git v1.5.0<\/a> &#8220;to delete a remote branch or a tag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starting with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git\/git\/blob\/master\/Documentation\/RelNotes\/2.8.0.txt\">Git v2.8.0<\/a>, you can also use <code>git push<\/code> with the <code>-d<\/code> option as an alias for <code>--delete<\/code>. Therefore, the version of Git you have installed will dictate whether you need to use the easier or harder syntax.<\/p>\n<h2>Delete Remote Branch [Original Answer from 5-Jan-2010]<\/h2>\n<p>From Chapter 3 of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/git-scm.com\/book\/en\/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches\"><em>Pro Git<\/em><\/a> by Scott Chacon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Deleting Remote Branches<\/h3>\n<p>Suppose you\u2019re done with a remote branch \u2014 say, you and your collaborators are finished with a feature and have merged it into your remote\u2019s main branch (or whatever branch your stable code-line is in). You can delete a remote branch using the rather obtuse syntax <code>git push [remotename] :[branch]<\/code>. If you want to delete your server-fix branch from the server, you run the following:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre><code>$ git push origin :serverfix\nTo git@github.com:schacon\/simplegit.git\n - [deleted]         serverfix\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Boom. No more branches on your server. You may want to dog-ear this page, because you\u2019ll need that command, and you\u2019ll likely forget the syntax. A way to remember this command is by recalling the <code>git push [remotename] [localbranch]:[remotebranch]<\/code> syntax that we went over a bit earlier. If you leave off the <code>[localbranch]<\/code> portion, then you\u2019re basically saying, \u201cTake nothing on my side and make it be <code>[remotebranch]<\/code>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I issued <code>git push origin: bugfix<\/code> and it worked beautifully. Scott Chacon was right\u2014I will want to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dogear#Verb\">dog ear<\/a> that page (or virtually dog ear by answering this on Stack\u00a0Overflow).<\/p>\n<p>Then you should execute this on other machines<\/p>\n<pre><code># Fetch changes from all remotes and locally delete \n# remote deleted branches\/tags etc\n# --prune will do the job :-;\ngit fetch --all --prune\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>to propagate changes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">28<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Executive Summary $ git push -d &lt;remote_name&gt; &lt;branchname&gt; $ git branch -d &lt;branchname&gt; Note: In most cases, &lt;remote_name&gt; will be origin. 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