Locally deleted branch is not deleted on remote repository [duplicate]

Question

I have removed a branch I have after merging it with the master. However, the locally deleted branch is not deleted on remote repo (on github).

On a suggestion in one answer here, I tried git push remote :branch that didn't seem to help. --prune option didn't seem to help either. I think I can go ahead and delete the branch remotely as well, but I don't want to be checking it and tracking with every branch.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You want to use this...

git push remote --delete <branch-name>

Although git push remote :branch should have worked. The command says push this branch without a local set, effectively deleting it.

Are you sure the name of your remote is remote? Could it be origin? Use git remote -v to list your remotes.

Failing that, you can delete branches using GitHub's UI.