Is there a simple way to delete all tracking branches whose remote equivalent no longer exists?
Example:
Branches (local and remote)
Locally, I only have a master branch. Now I need to work on bug-fix-a, so I check it out, work on it, and push changes to the remote. Next I do the same with bug-fix-b.
Branches (local and remote)
Now I have local branches master, bug-fix-a, bug-fix-b. The Master branch maintainer will merge my changes into master and delete all branches he has already merged.
So the current state is now:
Branches (local and remote)
Now I would like to call some command to delete branches (in this case bug-fix-a, bug-fix-b), which are no longer represented in the remote repository.
It would be something like the existing command Andrew Spencer
git remote prune origin , but more like git local prune origin .
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26 Answersgit remote prune origin prunes tracking branches not on the remote.
git branch --merged lists branches that have been merged into the current branch.
xargs git branch -d deletes branches listed on standard input.
Be careful deleting branches listed by
git branch --merged . The list could include master or other branches you'd prefer not to delete.
To give yourself the opportunity to edit the list before deleting branches, you could do the following in one line:
git branch --merged >/tmp/merged-branches && vi /tmp/merged-branches && xargs git branch -d </tmp/merged-branches
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After the command
removes the remote references, when you run
it will show 'gone' as the remote status. For example,
So you can write a simple script to remove local branches that have gone remotes:
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Most of these answers do not actually answer the original question. I did a bunch of digging and this was the cleanest solution I found. Here is a slightly more thorough version of that answer:
Explanation:
Works by pruning your tracking branches then deleting the local ones that show they are 'gone' in
git branch -vv .
Notes:
If your language is set to something other than English you will need to change dlssodlsso
gone to the appropriate word. Branches that are local only will not be touched. Branches that have been deleted on remote but were not merged will show a notification but not be deleted on local. If you want to delete those as well change -d to -D .
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I wouldn't normally answer a question that already has 16 answers, but all the other answers are wrong, and the right answer is so simple. The question says, 'Is there a simple way to delete all tracking branches whose remote equivalent no longer exists?'
If 'simple' means deleting them all in one go, not fragile, not dangerous, and without reliance on tools that not all readers will have, then the right answer is: no.
Some answers are simple, but they don't do what was asked. Others do what was asked, but are not simple: all rely on parsing Git output through text-manipulation commands or scripting languages, which may not be present on every system. On top of that, most of the suggestions use porcelain commands, whose output is not designed to be parsed by script ('porcelain' refers to the commands intended for human operation; scripts should use the lower-level 'plumbing' commands).
Further reading:
If you want to do this safely, for the use case in the question (garbage-collect tracking branches which have been deleted on the server but still exist as local branches) and with high-level Git commands only, you have to
(which is what some of the other answers propose).
If you want to script a solution, then
for-each-ref is your starting point, as in Mark Longair's answer here and this answer to another question, but I can't see a way to exploit it without writing a shell script loop, or using xargs or something.
Background explanation
To understand what's happening, you need to appreciate that, in the situation of tracking branches, you have not one branch, but three. (And recall that 'branch' means simply a pointer to a commit.)
Given a tracking branch
feature/X , the remote repository (server) will have this branch and call it feature/X . Your local repository has a branch remotes/origin/feature/X which means, 'This is what the remote told me its feature/X branch was, last time we talked,' and finally, the local repository has a branch feature/X which points to your latest commit, and is configured to 'track' remotes/origin/feature/X , meaning that you can pull and push to keep them aligned.
At some point, someone has deleted the
feature/X on the remote. From that moment, you are left with your local feature/X (which you probably don't want any more, since work on feature X is presumably finished), and your remotes/origin/feature/X which is certainly useless because its only purpose was to remember the state of the server's branch.
And Git will let you automatically clean up the redundant Andrew SpencerAndrew Spencer
remotes/origin/feature/X -- that's what git fetch --prune does -- but for some reason, it doesn't let you automatically delete your own feature/X .. even though your feature/X still contains the orphaned tracking information, so it has the information to identify former tracking branches that have been fully merged. (After all, it can give you the information that lets you do the operation by hand yourself.)
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Seems solution is here – https://stackoverflow.com/a/1072178/133986
In short,
git remote prune does the magic
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I found the answer here:How can I delete all git branches which have been merged?
Make sure we keep master
You can ensure that
master , or any other branch for that matter, doesn't get removed by adding another grep after the first one. In that case you would go:
So if we wanted to keep
master , develop and staging for instance, we would go:Make this an alias
Since it's a bit long, you might want to add an alias to your
.zshrc or .bashrc . Mine is called gbpurge (for git branches purge ):
Then reload your
.bashrc or .zshrc :
or
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Remove all branches that have been merged into master, but don't try to remove master itself:
git checkout master && git pull origin master && git fetch -p && git branch -d $(git branch --merged | grep master -v)
or add an alias:
alias gitcleanlocal='git checkout master && git pull origin master && git fetch -p && git branch -d $(git branch --merged | grep master -v)'
Explanation:
git checkout master checkout master branch
git pull origin master ensure local branch has all remote changes merged
git fetch -p remove references to remote branches that have been deleted
git branch -d $(git branch master --merged | grep master -v) delete all branches that have been merged into master, but don't try to remove master itself
cs01cs01
Windows Solution
For Microsoft Windows Powershell:
git checkout master; git remote update origin --prune; git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ': gone]' | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(' ')[0]} | % {git branch -d $_}
Explainationgit checkout master switches to the master branch
git remote update origin --prune prunes remote branches
git branch -vv gets a verbose output of all branches (git reference)
Select-String -Pattern ': gone]' gets only the records where they have been removed from remote.
% { $_.toString().Trim().Split(' ')[0]} get the branch name
% {git branch -d $_} deletes the branch
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The pattern matching for 'gone' in most of the other solutions was a little scary for me. To be safer, this uses the
--format flag to pull out each branch's upstream tracking status.
I needed a Windows-friendly version, so this deletes all branches that are listed as 'gone' using Powershell:
The first line lists the name of local branches whose upstream branch is 'gone'. The next line removes blank lines (which are output for branches that aren't 'gone'), then the branch name is passed to the command to delete the branch.
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This will delete all branches that are not tracked remotely.
ckirksey3ckirksey3
This will delete all the merged local branched except local master reference and the one currently being used:
And this will delete all the branches having already been removed from the remote repository referenced by 'origin', but are still locally available in 'remotes/origin'.
pabloa98pabloa98
I don't think there is a built-in command to do this, but it is safe to do the following:
When you use
-d , git will refuse to delete the branch unless it is completely merged into HEAD or its upstream remote-tracking branch. So, you could always loop over the output of git for-each-ref and try to delete each branch. The problem with that approach is that I suspect that you probably don't want bug-fix-d to be deleted just because origin/bug-fix-d contains its history. Instead, you could create a script something like the following:
Warning: I haven't tested this script - use only with care..
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Might be useful to some, simple one line to clear all local branches except master and develop
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Yet-another-answer for the pile, drawing heavily from https://stackoverflow.com/a/48411554/2858703 (which I like because it seems to do away with any ambiguity about where
gone] will match in the git branch output) but adding a *nix bent:
I have this wrapped up in a
git-gone script on my path:
NB - The --format option seems to be fairly new; I needed to upgrade git from 2.10.something to 2.16.3 to get it.
bxmbxm
Based on info above, this worked for me:
It removes all local branches with are Muthu Ganapathy Nathan
': gone] ' on remote.
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The above command can be used to fetch branches which are merged and deleted in remote and it deletes the local branch which no longer available in remote
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None of this was really right for me. I wanted something that would purge all local branches that were tracking a remote branch, on
origin , where the remote branch has been deleted (gone ). I did not want to delete local branches that were never set up to track a remote branch (i.e.: my local dev branches). Also I wanted a simple one-liner that just uses git , or other simple CLI tools, rather than writing custom scripts. I ended up using a bit of grep and awk to make this simple command.
Key do avast premier 2019. This is ultimately what ended up in my
~/.gitconfig :
Here is a
git config --global .. command for easily adding this as git prune-branches :
NOTE: In the config command, I use the Karl WilburKarl Wilbur
-d option to git branch rather than -D , as I do in my actual config. I use -D because I don't want to hear Git complain about unmerged branches. You may want this functionality as well. If so, simply use -D instead of -d at the end of that config command.
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Based on Git Tip: Deleting Old Local Branches, which looks similar to jason.rickman's solution I implemented a custom command for this purpose called git gone using Bash:
git gone -pn combines the pruning and listing the 'gone' branches:
Then you can pull the trigger using
git gone -d or git gone -D .
Notes
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Drawing heavily from a numberofotheranswers here, I've ended up with the following (git 2.13 and above only, I believe), which should work on any UNIX-like shell:
This notably uses gsneddersgsnedders
for-each-ref instead of branch (as branch is a 'porcelain' command designed for human-readable output, not machine-processing) and uses its --shell argument to get properly escaped output (this allows us to not worry about any character in the ref name).
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I came up with this bash script. It always keep the branches BrunoLMBrunoLM
develop , qa , master .
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I am not sure for how long, but I do use git-up now, which takes care of that.
I do
git up and it starts to track new branches and deletes the old ones.
Just to make it clear, it is not out-of-box git command — https://github.com/aanand/git-up
BTW it also stashes dirty tree and makes rebases still with just
git up .
Hope it'll be useful for someone
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Here's a solution that I use for the fish shell. Tested on
Mac OS X 10.11.5 , fish 2.3.0 and git 2.8.3 .
A few notes:
Make sure to set the correct
base_branch . In this case I use develop as the base branch, but it could be anything.
This part is very important:
grep -v '(master|$base_branch|*)' . It ensures that you don't delete master or your base branch.
I use
git branch -d <branch> as an extra precaution, so as to not delete any branch that has not been fully merged with upstream or current HEAD.
An easy way to test is to replace
git branch -d $f with echo 'will delete $f' .
I suppose I should also add: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
lpslps
I use a short method to do the trick, I recommend you to do the same as it could save some hours & give you more visibility
Just add the following snippet into your .bashrc (.bashprofile on macos).
You'll have to edit the grep regex in order to fit to your needs (here, it prevent master, preprod and dmz from deletion)
Ben CassinatBen Cassinat
This is gonna delete all the remote branches that are not present locally (in ruby):
Explained:
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I use this method so I can have more control.
git branch -D $(git branch | grep -v 'master' | grep -v 'develop')
This is remove any branches not named:
master or develop .
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I've googled and there are several very long threads on this topic and none of them seem to help. I think I'm doing something wrong.I have a branch called
Test_Branch . When I try to delete it using the recommend method, I get the following error:
Cannot delete branch 'Test_Branch' checked out at '[directory location]'.
I get no other information besides that. I can blow away the remote branch easy but the local branch won't go away.
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Switch to some other branch and delete
Test_Branch , as follows:
If above command gives you error -
The branch 'Test_Branch' is not fully merged. If you are sure you want to delete it and still you want to delete it, then you can force delete it using -D instead of -d , as:
To delete ArpitArpit
Test_Branch from remote as well, execute:
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You probably have Test_Branch checked out, and you may not delete it while it is your current branch. Check out a different branch, and then try deleting Test_Branch.
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Ran into this today and switching to another branch didn't help. It turned out that somehow my worktree information had gotten corrupted and there was a worktree with the same folder path as my working directory with a
HEAD pointing at the branch (git worktree list ). I deleted the .git/worktree/ folder that was referencing it and git branch -d worked.
jinxcat2008jinxcat2008
If you have created multiple worktrees with git worktree, you'll need to run
git prune before you can delete the branch
dkniffindkniffin
This worked for me..
I have removed the folders there in .git/worktrees folder and then tried 'git delete -D branch-name'.
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I would like to know how to delete a commit.
By
delete , I mean it is as if I didn't make that commit, and when I do a push in the future, my changes will not push to the remote branch.
I read git help, and I think the command I should use is Randall
git reset --hard HEAD . Is this correct?
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Careful:
git reset --hard WILL DELETE YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY CHANGES. Be sure to stash any local changes you want to keep before running this command.
Assuming you are sitting on that commit, then this command will wack it..
The
HEAD~1 means the commit before head.
Or, you could look at the output of
git log , find the commit id of the commit you want to back up to, and then do this:
If you already pushed it, you will need to do a force push to get rid of it..
However, if others may have pulled it, then you would be better off starting a new branch. Because when they pull, it will just merge it into their work, and you will get it pushed back up again.
If you already pushed, it may be better to use
git revert , to create a 'mirror image' commit that will undo the changes. However, both commits will be in the log.
FYI --
git reset --hard HEAD is great if you want to get rid of WORK IN PROGRESS. It will reset you back to the most recent commit, and erase all the changes in your working tree and index.
Lastly, if you need to find a commit that you 'deleted', it is typically present in Arslan Ali
git reflog unless you have garbage collected your repository.
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If you have not yet pushed the commit anywhere, you can use
git rebase -i to remove that commit. First, find out how far back that commit is (approximately). Then do:
The
~N means rebase the last N commits (N must be a number, for example HEAD~10 ). Then, you can edit the file that Git presents to you to delete the offending commit. On saving that file, Git will then rewrite all the following commits as if the one you deleted didn't exist.
The Git Book has a good section on rebasing with pictures and examples.
Be careful with this though, because if you change something that you have pushed elsewhere, another approach will be needed unless you are planning to do a force push.
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Another possibility is one of my personal favorite commands:
This will start the rebase in interactive mode 1800 INFORMATION1800 INFORMATION
-i at the point just before the commit you want to whack. The editor will start up listing all of the commits since then. Delete the line containing the commit you want to obliterate and save the file. Rebase will do the rest of the work, deleting only that commit, and replaying all of the others back into the log.
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I'm appending this answer because I don't see why anyone who has just tried to commit work would want to delete all that work because of some mistake using Git!
If you want to keep your work and just 'undo' that commit command (you caught before pushing to repo):
Do not use the --hard flag unless you want to destroy your work in progress since the last commit.
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Removing an entire commit
Obviously replace 'SHA' with the reference you want to get rid of. The '^' in that command is literal.
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If you didn't publish changes, to remove latest commit, you can do
(note that this would also remove all uncommitted changes; use with care).
If you already published to-be-deleted commit, use git revert
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PS: CommitId refers the one which you want to revert back to
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Forcefully Change History
Assuming you don't just want to delete the last commit, but you want to delete specific commits of the last n commits, go with:
git rebase -i HEAD~<number of commits to go back> , so git rebase -i HEAD~5 if you want to see the last five commits.
Then in the text editor change the word
pick to drop next to every commit you would like to remove. Save and quit the editor. Voila!
Additively Change History
Try
git revert <commit hash> . Revert will create a new commit that undoes the specified commit.
IliasTIliasT
If you want to fix up your latest commit, you can undo the commit, and unstage the files in it, by doing:
This will return your repository to its state before the git add commands that staged the files. Your changes will be in your working directory. HEAD~1 refers to the commit below the current tip of the branch.
If you want to uncommit N commits, but keep the code changes in your working directory:
If you want to get rid of your latest commit, and do not want to keep the code changes, you can do a 'hard' reset.
Likewise, if you want to discard the last N commits, and do not want to keep the code changes:
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Say we want to remove commits 2 & 4 from the repo.
Note: You need to have admin rights over the repo since you are using
--hard and -f .
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Here '2' is the number of commits you want to rebase.
if you want to rebase all the commits.
Then you will be able to choose one of these options.
p, pick = use commit
r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
f, fixup = like 'squash', but discard this commit's log message
x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell
d, drop = remove commit
These lines can be re-ordered; they are executed from top to bottom. If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST. However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted. Note that empty commits are commented out
You can simply remove that commit using option 'd' or Removing a line that has your commit.
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To delete in local branch, use
To delete in a remote branch, use
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Here's another way to do this:
Checkout the branch you want to revert, then reset your local working copy back to the commit that you want to be the latest one on the remote server (everything after it will go bye-bye). To do this, in SourceTree I right-clicked on the and selected 'Reset BRANCHNAME to this commit'. I think the command line is:
Since you just checked out your branch from remote, you're not going to have any local changes to worry about losing. But this would lose them if you did.
Then navigate to your repository's local directory and run this command:
This will erase all commits after the current one in your local repository but only for that one branch.
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The mistake:
I
git rebase -i --root 'ed my branch, ignorantly thinking I could reword the first commit differing from the master (the GitHub for Windows default view is the comparison to master, hiding it's entirety).
I grew a Silicon Valley beard while 900+ commits loaded themselves into Sublime. Exiting with no changes, I charged my battery then proceeded to shave, as all 900+ individual commits nonchalantly rebased - resetting their commit times to now.
Determined to beat Git and preserve the original times, I deleted this local repository and re-cloned from the remote.
Now it had re-added a most recent unneeded commit to master I wished to remove, so proceeded like so.
Exhausting the options:
I didn't wish to
git revert - it would create an additional commit, giving Git the upper hand.
git reset --hard HEAD did nothing, after checking the reflog , the last and only HEAD was the clone - Git wins.
To get the most recent SHA, I checked the remote repository on github.com - minor win.
After thinking
git reset --hard <SHA> had worked, I updated another branch to master and 1.. 2.. poof! the commit was back - Git wins.
Checking back out to master, time to try
git rebase -i <SHA> , then remove the line.. to no avail, sad to say. 'If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST'. Ah..glossed over new feature troll the n00b in the 2.8.3 release notes.
The solution:
git rebase -i <SHA> then d, drop = remove commit .
To verify, I checked out to another branch, and voila - no hiding commit to fetch/pull from the master.
Good day to you.
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All the commands above restore the state of your work tree and index as they were before making the commit, but do not restore the state of the repository. If you look at it, the 'removed' commit is not actually removed, it is simply not the one on the tip of the current branch.
I think that there are no means to remove a commit with porcelain commands. The only way is to remove it from the log and reflog and then to execute a Shog9♦
git prune --expire -now .
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If you just messed up your last commit (wrong message, forgot to add some changes) and want to fix it before pushing it to a public repo why not use:
If you have newly staged changes they'll be combined with the last commit (that you're trying to get rid of) and will replace that commit.
Of course if you amend a commit after you've pushed it, you're rewriting history so if you do that be sure to understand the implications.
You can also pass the '--no-edit' option instead of '-m' if you would prefer to use the previous commit's message.
Docs:http://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit.html
PwnrarPwnrar
If you want to keep the history, showing the commit and the revert, you should use:
enter the message explaining why are you reverting and then:
When you issue Paulo FidalgoPaulo Fidalgo
git log you'll see both the 'wrong' commit and revert log messages.
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Source: https://gist.github.com/sagarjethi/c07723b2f4fa74ad8bdf229166cf79d8
Delete the last commit
For example your last commit
git push origin +aa61ab32^:master
Now you want to delete this commit then an Easy way to do this following
Steps
For particular commit, you want to reset is following
sagar jethisagar jethi
If you've already pushed, first find the commit you want to be at HEAD ($GIT_COMMIT_HASH_HERE), then run the following:
Then each place the repo has been cloned, run:
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What I do usually when I commit and push (if anyone pushed his commit this solve the problem):
hope this help
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Ashish SinghAshish Singh
Take backup of your code in to temp folder. Following command will reset same as server.
If you want to keep your changes , and remove recent commits
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I have already pushed. Need to return some commits back remotly.Have tried many variations, but only this from Justin via git bush is working fine for me:
Serg BurlakaSerg Burlaka
git reset --hard
git push origin HEAD --force
If one or more of the commits is tagged, delete the tag(s) first. Otherwise the tagged commit is not removed.
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As you can see on above image i want to delete revert'test change 2' commit(SHA1 ID: 015b5220c50e3dfbb1063f23789d92ae1d3481a2(you can get SHA1 ID by using
gitk command in git bash)).
For that i can use(all below command work on local only. you need to push after delete):
after delete:
ankitankit
Reference: How to delete a commit in git, local and remote
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Assuming you have not pushed to the remote repository, you could re-clone the repository. This has been my method of choice a few times.
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use git revert https://git-scm.com/docs/git-revert .It will revert all code then you can do next commit.Then head will point to that last commit. reverted commits never delete but it will not affect on you last commit.
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Due to some bad cherry-picking, my local Git repository is currently five commits ahead of the origin, and not in a good state. I want to get rid of all these commits and start over again.
Obviously, deleting my working directory and re-cloning would do it, but downloading everything from GitHub again seems like overkill, and not a good use of my time.
Maybe
git revert is what I need, but I don't want to end up 10 commits ahead of the origin (or even six), even if it does get the code itself back to the right state. I just want to pretend the last half-hour never happened.
Is there a simple command that will do this? It seems like an obvious use case, but I'm not finding any examples of it.
Note that this question is specifically about commits, not about:
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If your excess commits are only visible to you, you can just do
git reset --hard origin/<branch_name> to move back to where the origin is. This will reset the state of the repository to the previous commit, and it will discard all local changes.
Doing a Ben JacksonBen Jackson
git revert makes new commits to remove old commits in a way that keeps everyone's history sane.
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Simply delete your local master branch and recreate it like so:
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Try:
to reset your head to wherever you want to be. Use gitk to see which commit you want to be at. You can do reset within gitk as well.
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Delete the most recent commit:
git reset --hard HEAD~1
Delete the most recent commit, without destroying the work you've done:
git reset --soft HEAD~1
Git Delete Local Branch ForceJames L.
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If you are using Atlassian SourceTree app, you could use the reset option in the context menu.
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On your branch attempt:
Validate the reversal (to the state, with no local commits), using '
git log ' or 'git status ' hence.
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git reset --hard @{u} * deletes all your local changes on the current branch, including commits. I'm surprised no one has posted this yet considering you won't have to look up what commit to revert to or play with branches.
* That is, reset to the current branch at David Moles
@{upstream} —commonly origin/<branchname> , but not always
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To see/get the SHA-1 id of the commit you want to come back too
To roll back to that commit
!Note. All the commits that were made after that commit will be deleted (and all your modification to the project). So first better clone the project to another branch or copy to another directory.
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Git Delete Local Branch Only
I had a situation where I wanted to remove a commit that wasn't pushed, but the commit was before another one. To do so, I've used the following command
git rebase -i HEAD~2 -> it will rebase the last two commits
And I used 'drop' for the commit signature that I wanted to remove.
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For local commits which are not being pushed, you can also use
git rebase -i to delete or squash a commit.
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Remove untracked files (uncommitted local changes)
Permanently deleting all local commits and get latest remote commit
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For those interested in the Visual Studio solution, here is the drill:
That will throw away your local commits and reset the state of your repo to the selected commit. I.e. Your changes after you pulled the repo will be lost.
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This will come in handy if you have made some mistakes on your local copy that you want to make sure doesn't get pushed to your remote branch by mistake.
The SHA-Code can be obtained by looking at webVersion of your git dashboard for the last commit on the branch.
This way you can get synchronized with the last commit on the branch.
You can do
git pull after you have successfully completed the hard reset to confirm nothing new to syn i.e. you get to see the message.
Your branch is up to date with Samuel Philipp
Origin/<Branch Name>
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Git branches aren't much more than a small reference that keeps an exact history of commits, so they are very cheap to create.Committing changes to a branch will not affect other branches, and you can share branches with others without having to merge the changes into the main project.Create new branches to isolate changes for a feature or a bug fix from your master branch and other work.
Since the branches are lightweight, switching between branches is quick and easy. Git does not create multiple copies of your source when working with branches—it uses the history information stored in commits to recreate the files on a branch when you start working on it.Your Git workflow should create and use branches for managing features and bugfixes.The rest of the Git workflow, such as sharing code and reviewing code with pull requests all work through branches.Isolating work in branches makes it very simple to change what you are working on by simply changing your current branch.
In this tutorial you learn:
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Create branches using the
branch command. Branch creates a reference in Git for the new branch and a pointer back to the parent commit so Git can keep a history of changes as you add commits to the branch. When you are working with a branch that someone else shared, Git keeps an upstream tracking relationship to associate the branch on the local repo with the corresponding branch on the remote repo.This makes it very simple to sync changes with others using push and pull.
In this image, a new branch is created from the main branch. Work continues on both branches and commits are added to both branches.
Git Delete Local Branch Push
Git always adds new commits to the current local branch. Check what branch you are working on before you commit so that you don't commit changes to the wrong branch. Swap between local branches using the
checkout command. Git will change the files on your computer to match the latest commit on the checked out branch.When your work in the branch is ready to share with the rest of the team, you push the changes to update the remote branch.
A common mistake is to make some changes and
commit them, realize you are on an incorrect branch, then checkout to the correct branch.Your most recent changes will no longer be on the filesystem since each branch has its own version of code. Git will bring the state of the files back to the last commit on the branch you swapped into, not the previous branch where you made your changes. You'll need to either cherry-pick the commits from the branch or merge the changes into the correct branch.
Create a branch
Visual Studio 2015 & 2017
Use the
branch command to create the branch and checkout to swap to that branch.
Delete a branch
Note
Deleting a branch in your local repo doesn't remove the branch on the remote.
Visual Studio 2015 & 2017
You can delete a remote branch using the same method - locate the tree for the remote in Team Explorer's Branches view (such as
remotes/origin ), right-click and select Delete.
Delete a local branch using
git branch -d while checked out to a different branch.
Deleting a remote branch requires use of the
git push command using the --delete option.
Use branches to manage development
Git keeps track of which branch you are working on and makes sure that when you
checkout a branch your files match the most recent commit on the branch. Branches let you work with multiple versions of the source code in the same local Git repository at the same time. Tell Git which branch you want to work on with checkout , and Git takes care of setting the right file versions for that branch.
You shouldn't need more than one repo on your system when you use branches to isolate your work. Set up your development environment one time after you clone, and then use Git branches to swap between feature work and bug fixing.
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