How to remove a branch locally

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I have a master and a dev branch in my repository  I want to remove the master branch from my computer so that I don t accidentally commit to it  it s happened       There are questions on here about how to delete branches locally and remotely  but I haven t been able to find out how to only delete a branch locally   One answer said to use this   git branch -d local branch name   But I tried that and the branch still shows up in the GitHub application

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By your tags  I m assuming your using Github  Why not create some branch protection rules for your master branch  That way even if you do try to push to master  it will reject it      1  Go to the  Settings  tab of your repo on Github       2  Click on  Branches  on the left side-menu       3  Click  Add rule       4  Enter  master  for a branch pattern       5  Check off  Require pull request reviews before merging    I would also recommend doing the same for your dev branch

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I think  based on your comments  that I understand what you want to do  you want your local copy of the repository to have neither the ordinary local branch master  nor the remote-tracking branch origin master  even though the repository you cloned   the github one   has a local branch master that you do not want deleted from the github version   You can do this by deleting the remote-tracking branch locally  but it will simply come back every time you ask your git to synchronize your local repository with the remote repository  because your git asks their git  what branches do you have  and it says  I have master  so your git  re creates origin master for you  so that your repository has what theirs has   To delete your remote-tracking branch locally using the command line interface   git branch -d -r origin master   but again  it will just come back on re-synchronizations   It is possible to defeat this as well  using remote origin fetch manipulation   but you re probably better off just being disciplined enough to not create or modify master locally

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you need switch into another branch and try the same   git branch -d

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As far  I can understand the original problem  you added commits to local master by mistake and did not push that changes yet  Now you want to cancel your changes and hope to delete your local changes and to create a new master branch from the remote one   You can just reset your changes and reload master from remote server   git reset --hard origin master

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Force Delete a Local Branch    git branch -D  lt branch-name gt     NOTE   -D is a shortcut for --delete --force

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You can delete multiple branches on windows using Git GUI   Go to your Project folder Open Git Gui   Click on  Branch    Now choose  Delete    If you want to delete all branches besides the fact they are merged or not  then check  Always  Do not perform merge checks

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The Github application for Windows shows all remote branches of a repository  If you have deleted the branch locally with   git branch -d  branch name   the remote branch still exists in your Github repository and will appear regardless in the Windows Github application   If you want to delete the branch completely  remotely as well   use the above command in combination with   git push origin   name of your new branch   Warning  this command erases all existing branches and may cause loss of code  Be careful  I do not think this is what you are trying to do   However every time you delete the local branch changes  the remote branch will still appear in the application  If you do not want to keep making changes  just ignore it and do not click  otherwise you may clone the repository  If you had any more questions  please let me know

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