Delete branches in Bitbucket

Question

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?

Solution 1

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!

Solution 2

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.

Solution 3

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

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

Solution 4

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

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

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.

Solution 5

in Bitbucket go to branches in left hand side menu.

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

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Comments

[Admin]

Where can one find the "Settings"? I have to delete the main branch or all the files in it. How do I do it?

[niico]

Where is 'overview'? If you mean Source, I see no 'Delete Branch' option under the ...

[Noumenon]

Step 1 should be "go to your repo and click 'branches' in the left sidebar."

[jersey bean]

If I run 'git branch -r', I notice that BB isn't deleting the branch from the server. It no longer shows up in the GUI, but its shows on the git server.

[Suncat2000]

There are some branches that BitBucket simply will not allow deleting.

[DonBaka]

Looks like not allowing for me: remote: external-pre-receive-hook declined remote: fatal: not a tree object remote: tar: This does not look like a tar archive remote: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

[Styszma]

@jerseybean - git remote prune origin should help you out. I'm 2 years later but hopefully it will help someone.

[user1315621]

That's on Bitbucket website