What to do with branch after merge

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I had two branches  master and branch1  I just merged branch1 back into master and I m done with that branch  Should I delete it or just let it sit around  Will deleting it cause any loss of data

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If you DELETE the branch after merging it  just be aware that all hyperlinks  URLs  and references of your DELETED branch will be BROKEN

User · Answer

After the merge  it s safe to delete the branch   git branch -d branch1   Additionally  git will warn you  and refuse to delete the branch  if it thinks you didn t fully merge it yet  If you forcefully delete a branch  with git branch -D  which is not completely merged yet  you have to do some tricks to get the unmerged commits back though  see below    There are some reasons to keep a branch around though  For example  if it s a feature branch  you may want to be able to do bugfixes on that feature still inside that branch   If you also want to delete the branch on a remote host  you can do   git push origin  branch1   This will forcefully delete the branch on the remote  this will not affect already checked-out repositiories though and won t prevent anyone with push access to re-push create it      git reflog shows the recently checked out revisions  Any branch you ve had checked out in the recent repository history will also show up there  Aside from that  git fsck will be the tool of choice at any case of commit-loss in git

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I prefer RENAME rather than DELETE    All my branches are named in the form of    Fix fix- lt somedescription gt  or   Ftr ftr- lt somedescription gt  or  etc    Using Tower as my git front end  it neatly organizes all the Ftr   Fix   Test  etc  into folders  Once I am done with a branch  I rename them to Done    - lt description gt       That way they are still there  which can be handy to provide history  and I can always go back knowing what it was  feature  fix  test  etc

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