Deleting a local branch with Git

Question

I ve googled and there are several very long threads on this topic and none of them seem to help  I think I m doing something wrong  I have a branch called Test Branch  When I try to delete it using the recommend method  I get the following error      Cannot delete branch  Test Branch  checked out at   directory   location      I get no other information besides that  I can blow away the remote branch easy but the local branch won t go away

User · Answer

Ran into this today and switching to another branch didn t help  It turned out that somehow my worktree information had gotten corrupted and there was a worktree with the same folder path as my working directory with a HEAD pointing at the branch  git worktree list   I deleted the  git worktree  folder that was referencing it and git branch -d worked

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If you have created multiple worktrees with git worktree  you ll need to run git prune before you can delete the branch

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In my case there were uncommitted changes from the previous branch lingering around  I used following commands and then delete worked   git checkout    git checkout master  git branch -D

User · Answer

Like others mentioned you cannot delete current branch in which you are working   In my case  I have selected  Test Branch  in Visual Studio and was trying to delete  Test Branch  from Sourcetree  Git GUI   And was getting below error message      Cannot delete branch  Test Branch  checked out at   directory   location      Switched to different branch in Visual Studio and was able to delete  Test Branch  from Sourcetree   I hope this helps someone who is using Visual Studio  amp  Sourcetree

User · Answer

Switch to some other branch and delete Test Branch  as follows     git checkout master   git branch -d Test Branch   If above command gives you error - The branch  Test Branch  is not fully merged  If you are sure you want to delete it and still you want to delete it  then you can force delete it using -D instead of -d  as     git branch -D Test Branch   To delete Test Branch from remote as well  execute   git push origin --delete Test Branch

User · Answer

You probably have Test Branch checked out  and you may not delete it while it is your current branch   Check out a different branch  and then try deleting Test Branch

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This worked for me     I have removed the folders there in  git worktrees folder and then tried  git delete -D branch-name

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