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How do you remove branches from source tree

Will_92h05n

There are a number of old branches that I used to track which I want to remove from source tree. Is this possible? If I right click the branch in the side menu, I can delete the branch, but I'm not sure if this will just remove it from source tree (as I want) of if it will completely delete the branch from the GIT repo.

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stevestreeting

If you're using Git, when you delete a branch from the sidebar, if you do it in the local branches section (so ones not under a Remote, they're blue) then the branch will simply be deleted from your local repo. Any branches on remotes will not be affected.

If you want to delete a branch on a remote, you can expand the remote in the sidebar and delete the grey branch underneath. This is a separate task to deleting your purely local branch.

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stevestreeting

If you want to delete a branch on a remote, you can expand the remote in the sidebar and delete the grey branch underneath. This is a separate task to deleting your purely local branch.

stevestreeting

Worth saying that if you delete just the local branch, but you've pushed this branch to a remote at some point, you can always get the branch back again locally just by checking it out from the remote again.

Mikael Lavi

Would love it if it was called "Delete local branch", and the corresponding command on remotes be called "Delete remote branch". Thanks for the hint anyways!

Bill Langton

Same question and same concern over what Delete would do. With the recent UI update, the local branches are no longer blue. A picture would be worth the proverbial 1000 words here, but I get an http error when i try to insert an image.

In the Sidebar, there are bolded sections for File Status, Branches, Tags, Remotes, and Stashes. Under Branches, right click the branch to remove and choose Delete. You'll get a confirmation popup with an unchecked checkbox to Force Delete. I did not check the box. As noted by Steve, this only removed the branch from my local repo. I'm guessing Force Delete will remove any local changes???

Theepranai.sos

You can delete all local and origin.

alex_rq7hs0

Please see my comment above... If I do this as of 3.2.6 the branch disappears from BOTH Branches and Remotes. This seemingly implies that "Delete <branchname>" actually deletes the branch on the server! Beware!

ronaldpoi

Just to add a little more info to this thread, this is what happens when you delete a branch from the sidebar. It ASKS for confirmation. You can CHOOSE to delete the remote branch, but the default behavior is to just delete the local one.

For reference, this happens in Sourcetree 4.0.1 although more likely, the functionality is present in previous versions. Screen Shot 2020-06-01 at 23.52.54.png

Michael Junek

As someone who switches between Windows and Mac, this option is only available in the Mac version of SourceTree.

I found this thread trying to find out how to have the "Delete Remote Branch" option in the Windows version too.

This is the equivalent dialog in Windows:

Screen Shot 2021-01-12 at 17.01.11 .png

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