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remotely deleting a branch

Subject: remotely deleting a branch

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3 messages between Jun 1, 2009 and Jun 1, 2009.

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jean-luc malet· Jun 1, 2009, 10:16 UTC · lore

hi!
I created a remote branch by doing
$ git push origin mynewbranch
I done some work on mynewbranch, commited, pushed changes to origin,
merged it to master and pushed to origin and deleted the mynewbranch
localy because I don't need it anymore
now I want to "undo" the git push origin mynewbranch ie remotely
delete the branch from the repository
I tried git push --mirror but it deleted all remote branches that I
didn't worked on... I don't want to have it be a mirror... but
something like
$ git branch -r -d origin/mynewbranch
$ git push
   ---> deleting origin/mynewbranch

how shall I do that? thanks JLM

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John Tapsell· Jun 1, 2009, 11:02 UTC · re: jean-luc malet · lore

Re: remotely deleting a branch

2009/6/1 jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>:

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> hi!
> I created a remote branch by doing
> $ git push origin mynewbranch
> I done some work on mynewbranch, commited, pushed changes to origin,
> merged it to master and pushed to origin and deleted the mynewbranch
> localy because I don't need it anymore
> now I want to "undo" the git push origin mynewbranch ie remotely
> delete the branch from the repository
> I tried git push --mirror but it deleted all remote branches that I
> didn't worked on... I don't want to have it be a mirror... but
> something like
> $ git branch -r -d origin/mynewbranch
> $ git push
>   ---> deleting origin/mynewbranch
>
> how shall I do that?

Yeah, it's pretty confusing on how to delete a remote branch. The magic command is:

git push origin -f :mynewbranch

Hopefully someone will figure out a way to make git a bit more intuitive in this respect. Maybe a remote option for git branch -d or something. John

Gustaf Hendeby· Jun 1, 2009, 10:59 UTC · lore

Re: remotely deleting a branch

This should of course have been cc to the list too...

Gustaf Hendeby wrote:

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> jean-luc malet wrote:
>> hi!
>> I created a remote branch by doing
>> $ git push origin mynewbranch
>> I done some work on mynewbranch, commited, pushed changes to origin,
>> merged it to master and pushed to origin and deleted the mynewbranch
>> localy because I don't need it anymore
>> now I want to "undo" the git push origin mynewbranch ie remotely
>> delete the branch from the repository
>> I tried git push --mirror but it deleted all remote branches that I
>> didn't worked on... I don't want to have it be a mirror... but
>> something like
>> $ git branch -r -d origin/mynewbranch
>> $ git push
>>    ---> deleting origin/mynewbranch
>>
>> how shall I do that?
>> thanks
>> JLM
>>
> 
> Hi Jean-Luc!
> 
> Have a look at the help for push, you will find
> 
>   git push origin :mynewbranch
> 
> to be what you are looking for.  It is listed quite far down as an example.
> 
> /Gustaf
>