When to delete branches in Git?

Question

Suppose we have an application that\'s stable.

Tomorrow, someone reports a big ol\' bug that we decide to hotfix right away. So we create a branch for that hotfix off o

Answer 1

What you need to do is tag anything that you release. Keep branches around for when you are actively developing.

Delete old branches with

git branch -d branch_name

Delete them from the server with

git push origin --delete branch_name

or the old syntax

git push origin :branch_name

which reads as "push nothing into branch_name at origin".

That said, as long as the DAG (directed acyclic graph) can point to it, the commits will be there in history.

Google "git-flow" and that may give some more insight on release management, branching and tagging.