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catherine
catherine

Reputation: 22808

Delete branches in Bitbucket

I've created lots of branches in one of our repositories. Those branches are for testing before it will be pulled to the master. Now I see lots of them on the list and they we will never use it again. How to delete those branches directly to Bitbucket?

Upvotes: 184

Views: 420690

Answers (12)

mitesh keswani
mitesh keswani

Reputation: 153

This one will surely work and is easy to do.

  1. Open your repository in stash/bitbucket url of your repo on browser.
  2. On the left bottom, if >> arrow is present, click on it.
  3. Now scroll down/up, till you find Branches text/link in the left menu and click on it.
  4. In dropdown or search box, type your branch name to search till it appears in the list below.
  5. The last column in the list with ...(3 dots) and header as Actions, click on the same and click on "Delete branch".

Note: Ensure that you click the dots / delete your own branch that you intend to do.

Upvotes: 0

mohamed stitane
mohamed stitane

Reputation: 509

In Bitbucket go to your project, click branches , click on the three points and click delete multiple.

This option for mass delete.

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Upvotes: 11

Prashant Sharma
Prashant Sharma

Reputation: 395

In Bitbucket go to branches on the left hand side menu.

  1. Select your branch you want to delete.
  2. Go to action column, click on three dots (...) and select "delete branch".

Upvotes: 15

vijeth.ag
vijeth.ag

Reputation: 545

In bitbucket web console., delete branch is disabled when there are active Pull requests.

Upvotes: 0

Mital Pritmani
Mital Pritmani

Reputation: 5110

For deleting branch from Bitbucket,

  1. Go to Overview (Your repository > branches in the left sidebar)
  2. Click the number of branches (that should show you the list of branches)
  3. Click on the branch that you want to delete
  4. On top right corner, click the 3 dots (besides Merge button).
  5. There is the option of "Delete Branch" if you have rights.

Upvotes: 64

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 301

I've wrote this small script when the number of branches in my repo exceeded several hundreds. I did not know about the other methods (with CLI) so I decided to automate it with selenium. It simply opens Bitbucket website, goes to Branches, scrolls down the page to the end and clicks on every branch options menu -> clicks Delete button -> clicks Yes. It can be tuned to keep the last N (100 - default) branches and skip branches with specific names (master, develop - default, could be more). If this fits for you, you can try that way.

https://github.com/globad/remove-old-branches

All you need is to clone the repository, download the proper version of Chrome-webdriver, input few constants like URL to your repository and run the script.

The code is simple enough to understand. If you have any questions, write comments / create an Issue.

Upvotes: 3

Ehab Al-Hakawati
Ehab Al-Hakawati

Reputation: 992

Try this command, it will purge all branches that have been merged to the develop branch.

for i in `git branch -r --merged origin/develop| grep origin | grep -v '>' \
   | grep -v master | grep -v develop | sed -E "s|^ *origin/||g"`; \
do \
   git push origin $i --delete; \
done

Upvotes: 1

Jyoti Amage
Jyoti Amage

Reputation: 23

If you are using a pycharm IDE for development and you already have added Git with it. you can directly delete remote branch from pycharm. From toolbar VCS-->Git-->Branches-->Select branch-->and Delete. It will delete it from remote git server.

Upvotes: 2

Ogglas
Ogglas

Reputation: 69968

I could delete most of my branches but one looked like this and I could not delete it:

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Turned out someone had set Branch permissions under Settings and from there unchecked Allow deleting this branch. Hope this can help someone.

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Update: Where settings are located from question in comment. Enter the repository that you wan't to edit to get the menu. You might need admin privileges to change this.

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Upvotes: 16

Mestica
Mestica

Reputation: 1529

In addition to the answer given by @Marcus you can now also delete a remote branch via:

git push [remote-name] --delete [branch-name]

Upvotes: 30

Marcus
Marcus

Reputation: 4020

If the branches are only local, you can use -d if the branch has been merged, like

git branch -d branch-name

If the branch contains code you never plan on merging, use -D instead.

If the branch is in the upstream repo (on Bitbucket) you can remove the remote reference by 

git push origin :branch-name

Also, if you're on the Bitbucket website, you can remove branches you've pushed by going to the Feature branches tab under Commits on the site. There you'll find an ellipsis icon. Click that, then choose Delete branch. Just be sure you want to drop all the changes there!

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Upvotes: 293

Tim Long
Tim Long

Reputation: 2149

In Android Studio, the options down the right corner of the IDE:

  • Change/checkout other local branch
  • Delete unwanted local branches (i.e. v0.0.1...)
  • Delete unwanted remote branches (i.e. origin/v0.0.1...) -- this step will delete branches in BitBucket if the branches are not prevented to be deleted and they are not the MAIN BRANCH.

Upvotes: 0

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