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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
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17 Deleting Branches

Branches can, and normally do, outlive their usefulness. Once you no longer need one, you can delete it from your repository. Remember, branches in Git are pointers to a commit. Deleting a branch doesn’t delete any commits, just the named pointer that refers to that commit.

One area where Git differs from traditional version control systems is the expense related to creating and deleting branches. It’s common to leave branches such as a release branch in the repository indefinitely in Subversion. Git doesn’t require that.

Since tags and branches both point to a single commit, you can tag your release and then delete the release branch. You can always create a new branch from the tag later if you need to make a change ...

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