How to delete a local or remote branch in Git

Deletes a local branch

  git branch --delete <branch-name>

Shorthand

  git branch -d <branch-name>

Force a branch to be deleted even if it hasn’t been pushed or merged yet.

  git branch -D <branch-name>

Delete all branches but keeping others like “develop”, “master”

  git branch | grep -v "develop" | grep -v "master" | xargs git branch -D

Deletes a remote branch

  git push origin --delete <branch-name>

Conclusion

Have fun and stay tuned for the next post. Thanks for reading 😉