I have forked from an upstream project that has hundreds of branches on it. Is it safe to delete those branches from my fork? Is there a better way to remove those branches from the fork? I do not need any of these branches and the hundreds of branchs on our upstream is just a bunch of noise that I would like to remove from the forked repo.
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2Yes, it’s safe to delete those. Are you looking for an automated way? – Ry- Aug 21 '17 at 16:40
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Yes, but they will reappear if you fetch again from master later to sync your development with this repository... – Philippe Aug 21 '17 at 17:14
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@Philippe except if you specify the branch you want to fetch? – Subomi Aug 21 '17 at 21:41
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You can delete the unneeded branches which came from upstream repository, it is totally safe as you rebase you forked repo with upstream repo later as well.
You may find more information here : deleting a branch after merge
Now you can delete your branch from remote as well local repo using this command:
git push --delete <remote_name> <branch_name>
git branch -d <branch_name>
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