Deleting a remote branch

When I perform branch -a :

$ git branch -a
* master
 remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
 remotes/origin/hello
 remotes/origin/master

And then I remove the branch:

$ git branch -r -D origin/hello
Deleted remote branch origin/hello (was c0cbfd0).

Now I see:

$ git branch -a
* master
 remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
 remotes/origin/master

The branch "hello" has been removed. But when I fetch:

$ git fetch
From localhost:project
 * [new hello]      hello     -> origin/hello

$ git branch -a
* master
 remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
 remotes/origin/hello
 remotes/origin/master

I'm so confused.
I think it has been removed, but it is still there.


You need to remove it from the remote with the following command:

git push origin --delete hello

When you are running git branch -rd origin/hello you are deleting your local branch only. The code above removes it from the origin repo.


To delete a remote branch, use

git push origin :remotebranch

Everything else operates on the local repository only. In more recent versions of git, you can also

git push origin --delete remotebranch

As per the documentation, --delete means the same "as prefixing all refs with a colon".

If you are wondering about meaning of the : , it follows the standard syntax for push . Usually, you would write

git push origin localbranch:remotebranch

but here, you replace localbranch with "nothing", effectively deleting the remote branch.


Note that git branch only allows for deleting local references.

 git branch -r -D origin/hello

That only delete the local pointer to a remote tracking branch , but that has no influence on the remote repo content itself.
Only the git push origin :hello , as mentioned in the other answers, would do that.

Plus, that doesn't change the config branch.hello.fetch : it still references origin/hello, which is why the next fetch will re-create the remote tracking branch in your local repo.

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