git: How to delete a local ref branch?

Question

I have bit of a difficulty in deleting a local ref branch(refs/notes/origin/commits). I was able to delete the branch(refs/notes/origin/commits) in the remote repository usi

Answer 1

you can just delete the file out of the .git directory. From the repository root, a command like this will get it:

rm .git/refs/tags/refs/original/refs/heads/master

The path may be slightly different if the git-tag command failed, so you may want to cd .git/refs and find the offending head by trial-and-error. Deleting the file will remove the reference from your local repository.

Answer 2

Just do

git branch -d commits

to delete the local branch.

Use the -D switch to delete it irrespective of its merged status.

Use

git update-ref -d refs/notes/origin/commits

to delete the ref.

You can also hard-delete it as mentioned in other answers with

rm -rf .git/refs/notes

Answer 3

You have notes in your git repository, you can delete one note with

git notes remove <commit>

For deleting of all notes you have to remove the 'notes' directory

rm -rf .git/refs/notes

or you can use the git update-ref command.

git update-ref -d refs/notes/commits