Feature branches in remote not getting deleted

Isuru-Nanayakkara

I'm having an issue with using git-flow. Not sure if this is the expected behavior so please clarify it for me.

I create an empty repo in Bitbucket and clone it to my local machine. Then I create an Xcode project (I do iOS developing) inside that repo, commit it and push it to Bitbucket.

Then I went ahead and initialzed my local repo to use git flow. I use SourceTree by the way. Then I created a new feature branch, let's call it FirstFeature. I add some files to the project and push it again. Now I have 3 branches in my remote repo; master, develop and FirstFeature.

Then I work on the project again and finish off that feature. The FirstFeature branch gets deleted and merged it with develop locally. Then I proceed to push it to Bitbucket. I thought since the local branch of FirstFeature got deleted, it would get removed when I push the new changes but apparently not. That FirstFeature branch is still there in my Bitbucket repo.

Is this expected behavior or do I need to do something extra to get these removed?

Thank you.

TimP

Hi Isuru,

By default git flow only deletes the local branch for you. You can delete remote branches manually using the syntax:

git push origin :branchname

This StackOverflow thread has a couple of other suggestions that may help.

Hope this helps! 

cheers,

Tim