Deleting the master branch in Git
This article explains how to delete the master branch in Git. Suppose, for some reason, you want to delete the master branch in the remote repository and start from scratch; what would you do?
Deleting the master branch in Git
Assuming our remote repository is hosted on GitHub, we can run the following command to delete the master branch from the remote repository.
$ git push origin --delete master
However, you will get an error message when you run the command above. This is because you cannot delete the default branch in GitHub.
You have to create a placeholder for your master branch and make it the default branch in GitHub.
We will run the following command to create a placeholder for our master branch.
$ git checkout -b placeholder
We can then push the branch to the remote repository.
$ git push -u origin placeholder
Once you're done, go to your personal GitHub account and navigate to the repository at hand. Click the Settings icon and select Branches from the left menu.
Change the default branch to the placeholder and return to the command line. You can now delete the master branch.
$ git push origin --delete master
This command will delete the master branch in the remote repository . It will not delete it from your local repository.
If you want to remove it from your local repository, run the following command.
$ git branch -d master
You can delete your master branch in the remote repository from the command line. However, you must set another branch as the default branch.
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