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Jonny Shanahan
Jonny Shanahan

Reputation: 421

Why does "git push" work after doing "git push origin --delete BRANCHNAME"?

Sometimes I want to delete the remote branch and then push again,if for instance I have amended a commit locally which had already been pushed. (don't worry, I only do this if I am the only one working on that branch).

After I do "git push origin --delete BRANCHNAME", I can simply follow that with a "git push".

If the branch has been deleted, why does "git push" actually work?
Why do I not need to do a "git push -u origin BRANCHNAME" again?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 694

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324043

To illustrate larsks' comment, here is a repo with a local branch tracking an upstream branch:

C:\Users\vonc\prog\b2dpres>git br -avv
* prez                  13a1c36 [origin/prez] 20150923

Pushing the deletion of the branch:

C:\Users\vonc\prog\b2dpres>git push origin --delete prez
To https://[email protected]/VonC/b2d.git
 - [deleted]         prez

That doesn't change the local config:

C:\Users\vonc\prog\b2dpres>git config --local --get-regexp branch.prez
branch.prez.remote origin
branch.prez.merge refs/heads/prez

Nor does it delete the local branch:

C:\Users\vonc\prog\b2dpres>git br -avv
* prez                  13a1c36 [origin/prez: gone] 20150923

(Note the "gone")

A simple git push will know what to push (the local current branch prez) where (to origin) and to which branch (to its tracking branch origin/prez)

C:\Users\vonc\prog\b2dpres>git push
Counting objects: 10, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 763.97 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 10 (delta 2), reused 1 (delta 0)
To https://[email protected]/VonC/b2d.git
 * [new branch]      prez -> prez

It recreates the branch on the remote side.

Upvotes: 1

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