Gitflow: ability to delete/remove release/hotfix/features easily
It would be great to have the ability to do something like git flow release delete v1.0.2, instead of git checkout develop && git branch -D release/v1.0.2 (which I'm not even sure correctly discards a release branch) and hoping no important steps were missed.
tianon
All 60 comments
That would be a good extra command.
PS: It is indeed the correct way to delete a branch. (Remember, git-flow doesn't do any hidden magic, it's just an implementation of the rules from the original blog post!)
nvie
on 26 Aug 2010
I would propose the following. If it is merged already in develop/master, but the branch pointer remains:
git flow release delete 1.0.2
To delete branched that are yet unmerged with develop/master (in order to avoid accidental deletion):
git flow release delete -f 1.0.2
Ah, indeed. I would be quite happy with that functionality of the feature.
I was unsure about that being the correct procedure because it seemed like when I tried it, the commits I'd made to the deleted branch got merged into develop anyways, which really annoyed me, but I managed to take care of it and move along. Just to be clear, this would/should completely remove the entire branch and all its commits, given the -f flag, correct?
tianon
on 26 Aug 2010
Strictly speaking, it removes the _branch_ object, which points to a commit (which points to a commit, which points to a commit, etc.). As long as you have any other branches pointing at one of those commits (like origin/feature/foo maybe), the commits will stick around. Otherwise, they'll be garbage collected eventually. That's just Git behaviour.
nvie
on 26 Aug 2010
Hmm, oh well. I must have screwed something up. Thanks for explaining, though!
tianon
on 26 Aug 2010
+1 this feature. I'm trying to use git-flow to use the release candidates as our sprint deliverables, to be pushed to the testing environment, while maintaining master as the production codebase. In other words, in our environment, most release candidates will NOT be getting 'finished' to go to master - but all should be _able_ to... so once a production release has been identified, I'd like to end the other release branches...
dngreene
on 6 Dec 2011
+1
kwerle
on 8 May 2012
+1
ghost
on 10 May 2012
+1
nexeck
on 10 May 2012
+1
billymeltdown
on 15 May 2012
+1
douggrubba
on 15 May 2012
+1 and I decided to implement this on my fork, currently only in the develop branch. Also added the ability to remove the remote branch as well.
petervanderdoes
on 21 Jun 2012
+1 for this, is this feature supported now?
atian25
on 26 Oct 2012
+1
Used this thread to figure out how to do it but would prefer built in method
DArrigoni
on 27 Oct 2012
It's been 2 years now... any chance it will get done? It's a good feature, I think.
netcriptus
on 30 Oct 2012
+1
despairblue
on 31 Oct 2012
+1
zubinmehta
on 9 Nov 2012
+1
nzajt
on 16 Nov 2012
Hello, it's already available in Peter van der Does fork with several other improvements.
baby-gnu
on 22 Nov 2012
+1
RajuBhosale
on 2 Jan 2013
+1
snapshotpl
on 9 Jan 2013
+1
dbaba
on 16 Jan 2013
+1
jcamacho14
on 18 Jan 2013
+1
mcplusa
on 28 Jan 2013
+1
millejano
on 30 Jan 2013
+1
mborho
on 5 Feb 2013
+1
fehmicansaglam
on 11 Mar 2013
+1
armanm
on 17 Mar 2013
+4 (myself and my team @ work)! ^_^
numeraltwo
on 22 Mar 2013
+1
Frully
on 26 Mar 2013
+2
Sangoku
on 28 Mar 2013
@nrvs lolz :D
:+1:
rhacker
on 10 Apr 2013
+1
tarciozemel
on 11 Apr 2013
:+1:
tullo
on 13 Apr 2013
+1
gandazgul
on 11 May 2013
:+1:
douglasresende
on 9 Jul 2013
+1
francesco-carrella
on 11 Jul 2013
+1
elcodedocle
on 21 Sep 2013
+1
wmayner
on 20 Nov 2013
+1
yeco
on 30 Nov 2013
+1
occasl
on 3 Jun 2014
+1
ipimpat
on 7 May 2015
+1
ethzero
on 9 Jun 2015
This is implemented in avh edition.
tchemit
on 9 Jun 2015
+100500
ishapkin
on 18 Jul 2016
+100501
hunaczech
on 30 Sep 2016
+1
piotrekzawada
on 13 Feb 2018
+1
Preen
on 6 Mar 2018
+1
apapegay-kimple
on 14 May 2018
+1
jedmarcnocum
on 25 May 2018
+1
Zanzi92
on 8 Aug 2018
+1
run26kimo
on 10 Aug 2018
Wow, can't believe this is still a thing. It's been almost 8 years waiting for this command.
yeco
on 10 Aug 2018
+1
diogoan
on 18 Sep 2018
+1
srsalute
on 18 Apr 2019
wow, after nine years, this is still a thing
really need this feature
lisbethw1130
on 9 May 2019
This is implemented in https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh It's backwards compatible with this version but adds many improvements and new features.
Disclaimer: I'm the project lead for Gitflow AVH Edition
petervanderdoes
on 9 May 2019
+1
gohackfelipe
on 17 Oct 2019
please, stop commenting just "+1", it's 2020 and Github already introduced emojis for this purpose 👍
geoom
on 10 Jan 2020
@geoom
+1
ishapkin
on 4 May 2020
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