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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsGit - Remove Branch
Hi All
I am working my way through the GIT course at the moment and need to delete a branch in origin - can someone tell me the best way to do this please.
G
6 Answers
Chris McKnight
11,045 PointsTo delete a branch on the remote origin run git push origin :remote_branch_to_delete. The colon in front of the remote says to remove the remote branch. You can also use the more explicit git push origin --delete remote_branch_to_delete
John W
21,558 PointsBoom! (at the bottom) http://git-scm.com/book/ch3-5.html
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Dean Phillips
22,260 PointsI can't get the challenge to remove the branch another_new_feature to work. I'm trying "git branch -d another_new_feature"
Chris McKnight
11,045 PointsThat deletes the local branch. Are you trying to delete the local branch or the remote branch? See my answer for how to delete a remote branch
Dean Phillips
22,260 PointsLocal. When I try the push command as if it was a remote it says wrong command.
Chris McKnight
11,045 Pointsgit branch -d or git branch -D will do it unless it's a bug. git branch -D will force delete the branch meaning delete the branch even if it hasn't been merged
Dean Phillips
22,260 PointsThanks Chris...It was the capital D.