Question

I created a new branch locally called experimental

git checkout -b experimental

I made my changes, committed them, and pushed them to GitHub. I could see the experimental branch on GitHub.

I then did:

git checkout master
git merge experimental

It showed the files it had merged

Updating 3811ea5..617606f
Fast forward
file1.py                             |  101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
file2.py                             |   59 ++++++++++++++----

However when I did a git status it said nothing to commit. Is that correct?

Anyway I pushed to GitHub and deleted the local branch. On GitHub I now have the master and experimental both pointing to the same point. Is there any need for the experimental branch on GitHub anymore. I have deleted it locally. How do I delete it on GitHub?

Answer 1

git push origin :experimental

As seen here, a site which was the first link for “git delete remote branch”