Is there a way to delete a branch on heroku

Question

I am using heroku to host my application. With merges and rebases i got 2 different stages of my app.

Local master is different from master on heroku.

pushing to heroku master failed with:

 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward) 
 error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:xxxxx.git'             
 Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing again.  See the    
 'Note about fast-forwards' section of 'git push --help' for details.                                                                                 

is there a way to delete the heroku master? then i can push it again to heroku master..

Answer 1

You can force push

git push --force origin master

That will overwrite remote master.

You can also delete remote branch by doing this

git push origin :master

Note the colon before branch name. This command says "take void from local machine and put this instead of remote branch 'master'"