Deleting Branches
When your work is done and you have already integrated it into the "master" branch, you probably do not need it anymore. Let's delete it.
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Deleting Branches

Let's assume our work on "contact-form" is done and we've already integrated it into "master". Since we don't need it anymore, we can delete it:

$ git branch -d contact-form

Tidy as we are, we also delete the remote branch by using the "git push" command with the "--delete" flag:

$ git push origin --delete contact-form

We have now removed both the local and remote versions of the branch.


For our teammates, however, the situation might look a bit different:

  • Fetch with "Prune" Option: Although we deleted the remote branch, it might still show up for other members of our team. To make sure that only active branches are displayed in a remote repository, it makes sense to always use the git fetch command with the --prune option:

$ git fetch origin --prune
  • Local Branches: In case one of our colleagues has created a local branch from the remote version of our contact-form branch, this will of course stay untouched! Deleting a branch on a remote never affects any of the existing local branches.

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