Git says remote ref does not exist when I delete remote branch

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I ran git branch -a     master   remotes origin test   remotes origin master   I want to delete my remote branch   I ve tried   git push origin --delete remotes origin test   I got      error  unable to delete  remotes origin test   remote ref does not   exist   How is it not exist     I did a git branch -a  and I saw it listed    Did I miss anything

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get the list of remote branches   git fetch   synchronize with the server git branch --remote   list remote branches    you should get a list of the remote branches     origin HEAD - gt  origin master origin develop origin master origin deleteme    now  we can delete the branch     git push origin --delete deleteme

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A handy one-liner to delete branches other than  master  from origin   git branch --remotes   grep -v  origin master    sed  s origin        xargs -i foo  git push origin --delete  foo    Be sure you understand the implications of running this before doing so

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Given that the remote branch is remotes origin test you can use two ways   git push origin --delete test   and  git branch -D -r origin test

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git push origin --delete origin test    should work as well

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I followed the solution by poke with a minor adjustment in the end  My steps follow  - git fetch --prune    - git branch -a printing the following   emsp   emsp  master   emsp   emsp  branch   emsp   emsp  remotes origin HEAD - gt  origin master   emsp   emsp  remotes origin master   emsp   emsp  remotes origin branch  remote branch to remove   - git push origin --delete branch    Here  the branch to remove is not named as remotes origin branch but simply branch  And the branch is removed

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There s a shortcut to delete the branch in the origin   git push origin   lt branch name gt   Which is the same as doing git push origin --delete  lt branch name gt

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The command git branch -a shows remote branches that exist in your local repository  This may sound a bit confusing but to understand it  you have to understand that there is a difference between a remote branch  and a branch that exists in a remote repository  Remote branches are local branches that map to branches of the remote repository  So the set of remote branches represent the state of the remote repository   The usual way to update the list of remote branches is to use git fetch  This automatically gets an updated list of branches from the remote and sets up remote branches in the local repository  also fetching any commit objects you may be missing   However  by default  git fetch does not remove remote branches that no longer have a counterpart branch on the remote  In order to do that  you explicitly need to prune the list of remote branches   git fetch --prune   This will automatically get rid of remote branches that no longer exist on the remote  Afterwards  git branch -r will show you an updated list of branches that really exist on the remote  And those you can delete using git push   That being said  in order to use git push --delete  you need to specify the name of the branch on the remote repository  not the name of your remote branch  So to delete the branch test  represented by your remote branch origin test   you would use git push origin --delete test

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This should help   git fetch git push origin --delete branchName

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For windows git branch --remotes        Trim   Split  quot   quot   1           -ne  master              -ne  otherBranch         git push origin --delete

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For me this worked     git branch -D -r origin mybranch  Details      git branch -a   grep mybranch   remotes origin mybranch      git branch -r   grep mybranch   origin mybranch      git branch    develop   feature pre-deployment      git push origin --delete mybranch error  unable to delete  mybranch   remote ref does not exist error  failed to push some refs to  git 10 102 100 38 config myrepo git       git branch -D -r origin mybranch Deleted remote branch origin mybranch  was 62c7421        git branch -a   grep mybranch      git branch -r   grep mybranch

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The meaning of remotes origin test is that you have a branch called test in the remote server origin  So the command would be  git push origin --delete test

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git push origin --delete yourBranch

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git branch -a will list the branches in your local and not the branches in your remote   And the error error  unable to delete  remotes origin test   remote ref does not exist means you don t have a branch in that name in your remote but the branch exists in your local

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