{"id":725,"date":"2013-10-03T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prgmr.io\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T08:05:12","slug":"creating-and-delete-remote-git-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/coding\/creating-and-delete-remote-git-branches\/","title":{"rendered":"Create and delete remote git branches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating and delete local git branches is easy:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" ># create a new branch and switch to it\r\nPS&gt; git checkout -b testing2\r\nSwitched to a new branch 'testing2'\r\n\r\n# if you want to create a new branch but don't want to switch to it do this instead:\r\n# git branch testing2\r\n\r\n# switch back to another branch (required so I can delete it)\r\nPS&gt; git checkout testing\r\nSwitched to branch 'testing'\r\n\r\n# delete the previously created branch\r\nPS&gt; git branch -d testing2\r\nDeleted branch testing2 (was 43d7d10).<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Once you have created a local branch<\/strong>, you can <em>push<\/em> it to the remote. Note: the branch must exist locally. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OPTION 1<\/strong>: switch to the branch locally, and then push\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" >PS&gt; git checkout testing2\r\nSwitched to branch 'testing2'\r\n\r\n# git push [remote repository] [branch name]\r\nPS&gt; git push origin testing2\r\nTotal 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)\r\nTo git@github.com:rakheshster\/PS-AppMgmt.git\r\n * [new branch]      testing2 -&gt; testing2<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>OPTION 2<\/strong>: stay on the current branch, and when pushing specify the local branch you want to push\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" >\r\n# git push [remote repository] [branch name] where [branch name] is [local branch name]:[remote branch name]\r\nPS&gt; git push origin testing2:nottesting2\r\nTotal 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)\r\nTo git@github.com:rakheshster\/PS-AppMgmt.git\r\n * [new branch]      testing2 -&gt; nottesting2<\/pre>\n<p>Notice the syntax: you specific the remote repository name <code>origin<\/code> and then specify the local branch name, colon, the remote branch name. The remote branch can have a different name from the local branch too. <\/p>\n<p>The proper syntax of the <code>git push<\/code> command can be seen in option 2; while option 1 is the simplified special case version. The <code>[local branch name]:[remote branch name]<\/code> part is known as a <code>refspec<\/code>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which brings us to delete remote branches. To delete remote branches, you do the same as above except that you push an empty local branch to the remote branch that you want to delete &#8211; effectively nullifying the remote branch! It&#8217;s non-intuitive in a way, but I find it very geeky and logical. It&#8217;s as though you no longer had a <code>delete<\/code> command on your file system, and if you wanted to deleted a file you copied <code>\/dev\/null<\/code> to it thus deleting it. <\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" >\r\n# delete remote branch\r\nPS&gt; git push origin :nottesting2\r\nEnter passphrase for key '\/c\/Users\/rakhesh\/.ssh\/id_rsa':\r\nTo git@github.com:rakheshster\/PS-AppMgmt.git\r\n - [deleted]         nottesting2<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating and delete local git branches is easy: # create a new branch and switch to it PS&gt; git checkout -b testing2 Switched to a new branch &#8216;testing2&#8217; # if you want to create a new branch but don&#8217;t want to switch to it do this instead: # git branch testing2 # switch back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/coding\/creating-and-delete-remote-git-branches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Create and delete remote git branches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[102],"tags":[103],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}