Deleting remote branches in Git - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to delete a remote branch named 'feature' using git.

Git

git push origin [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A--delete feature

Bdelete feature

C-d feature

Dremove feature

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which deletes local branches, not remote.

Using 'delete' without dashes, which is not a valid git flag.

To delete a remote branch, you use git push origin --delete branch_name.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to delete the remote branch 'bugfix' from the remote named 'upstream'.

Git

git push [1] --delete bugfix

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aremote

Borigin

Cupstream

Dmaster

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'origin' when the remote is actually named 'upstream'.

Using 'master' which is a branch name, not a remote.

The remote name is specified after git push. Here, it is upstream.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to delete remote branch 'test' from 'origin'.

Git

git push origin [1] test

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Adelete

B-d

Cremove

D--delete

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which deletes local branches.

Using 'delete' or 'remove' without dashes, which are invalid.

The correct flag to delete a remote branch is --delete, not '-d' or other words.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to delete the remote branch 'release' from remote 'origin' and then verify the branch list.

Git

git push [1] [2] release && git branch -r

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aorigin

B--delete

C-d

Dupstream

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which deletes local branches.

Using wrong remote names like 'upstream' if not configured.

Use git push origin --delete release to delete the remote branch, then git branch -r to list remote branches.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to delete remote branch 'hotfix', fetch updates, and prune deleted branches.

Git

git push [1] [2] hotfix && git fetch [3] --prune

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aorigin

B--delete

Dupstream

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using different remote names inconsistently.

Forgetting the '--prune' flag to clean up deleted branches.

First, delete the remote branch with git push origin --delete hotfix. Then fetch and prune with git fetch origin --prune to update local references.