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Posted by Sondra Coffin
Sondra Coffin
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On the command line, what is the difference between the -D and -d flags? Or are they the same?

At 5:29 in the video "Branches Behind the Scenes" (the last video of the "Branches" section of the "Git Branches and Merging" course) the instructor explicitly says "capital D" when writing out and reading the command for deleting a branch, but he has been using lowercase d ever since. Is there a difference between capital and lowercase for the delete option?

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

I searched the Internet and found:

Delete a Local GIT branch

The -d option stands for --delete , which would delete the local branch, only if you have already pushed and merged it with your remote branches. The -D option stands for --delete --force , which deletes the branch regardless of its push and merge status, so be careful using this one!