17 Dec
2022
17 Dec
'22
12:02 a.m.
You can just push empty to delete remote branch (note the nothing before ":"):
git push origin :branch_name
The normal push is equivalent to (your current HEAD is branched from remote
"branch_name")
git push origin HEAD:branch_name
On Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 05:51:25 GMT+8, Gerald Pfeifer
<gerald(a)pfeifer.com> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Git_Wine_Tutorial#Deleting_branches has
Deleting branches
git branch -D new-branch
Alas that does not work for me.
% git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/dll_soinit.c-stddef.h
:
% git branch -D dll_soinit.c-stddef.h
error: branch 'dll_soinit.c-stddef.h' not found.
I believe I can now answer my own question, having dug into it a bit.
The invocation above is for *local* branches, branches in the local
checkout.
To remove a *remote* branch, for example where a merge request was not
accepted or was "bad" for some reason, we need to use `git push` instead
of `git branch`:
% git push origin --delete dll_soinit.c-stddef.h
I plan on adding this to the Wiki in a few days.
Any suggestions/concerns?
Gerald