#Delete branch git how to#

Or, to force delete a branch regardless of its current status, run: git branch -D . If it’s already been merged, run: git branch -d .

I usually never need to clean up on my 1 man projects, on the others I do it around every 3 or 4 months. There are two different commands you can run to delete a local branch. I'm aware that you may be referring to exactly the way I do it - are you? In that case, this would be to clean up your dev branches from local after checking out, is that right? In all of my 1 man projects I do it like that, if there's a team ( >1 ), I like to do the 'diaspora' workflow I linked to. In order to delete a local Git branch, you need to provide the -delete or -d flag to the git branch command (the latter is simply an. Note that deleting the remote branch X from the command line using a git push will also remove the local remote-tracking branch origin/X, so it is not. Personally I may have master, development, and if I really must, a 'messing around' branch.

#Delete branch git how to#

Nevertheless, I'm interested in how different people code in their own ways. How to remove branches in Git Adding a new file in br-tst-1 branch Git remove commit Comparing the files in master and br-tst-1 branch Git delete files. Not misenterpreting, rather we just have a different workflow, ( a branch per issue if you would like to think at it like that). Branches that are not merged to HEAD are not. very large teams - of maybe 15 - 30+ developers would have many branches to be reconciled, but this post states distinctly local work (so I assume, it's on one man's machine, or am I misinterpreting? Each deleted branch will also do a check if its fully merged to current branch. This could work for a solo project, but on a 2+ man team, this would not work as well. Sill question, maybe, but why not just work with 2, 3 or 4 if you really must branches?

There's a post from my friend here: =EnriqueVidal that lets you remove remote branches that have been merged to master, so you can keep things neat on the remote side as well. Also it is useless to keep a 3 month old branch if it has been merged to master or no longer relevant.

Most if not all the time, we simply forget or don't care to remove those development branches from our local repository, and thus can take up hard drive space. So, to delete the remote branch AND locally-stored remote-tracking branch in one command, just use git push origin -delete .

In short, we create a develpment branch for every issue/bug we want to work on, and then merge into master. This guide over here: it is essentially what we do. I've worked on 2 different companies since I've used Git to manage development for projects. It is interesting to know how other people deal with complexity and how teams manage branches.