Delete a branch

Deleting a branch in Git is an essential practice for maintaining a streamlined and organized repository. While branches provide a convenient space for feature development, bug fixing, and experimentation, there comes a time when a branch has served its purpose and is no longer needed. By removing unnecessary branches, you can declutter your repository and ensure a clean development environment.

In this part of our tutorial, we will guide you through the process of deleting a branch in Git. You will learn how to safely remove a branch that has been merged or discard a branch that is no longer required.

We successfully merged issue1 with main in the previous step, and now we can delete it.

To delete the branch issue1, use the git branch -d command:

$ git branch -d issue1
Deleted branch issue1 (was b2b23c4).

Verify that issue1 has been deleted using the git branch command. Only the main branch should be listed.

$ git branch
* main