How to Delete a Git Branch Both Locally and Remotely

To delete a Git branch both locally and remotely, you can follow these steps:

Delete the local branch:

$ git branch -d branch_name

command: 
git branch -d dev
output: 
Switched to branch 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Git doesn't allow you to delete a local branch if you are already checked out and in the same branch. To mitigate this problem, you just need to switch to a different branch and execute the command. The exact error that git throws is shown below.

 

command: 
  git branch -d dev
output: 
  error: Cannot delete branch 'dev' checked out at '/home/backendpro/TheBackendPro'

Push the change to the remote repository:

$ git push origin --delete branch_name

command: 
  git push origin --delete dev
output: 
  To https://github.com/ulasalasreenath/TheBackendPro.git
  - [deleted]         dev

This will remove the branch from your local and remote repository.

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