🔒 Branches in VSCode (git)

[spark schooner]

I'm doing all my steps using the controls in Source Control in VSCode. I've cloned the master branch of a forked repo. I have created a new branch. The next two steps do not automatically reflect online and I don't quite understand why: I have changed the name of my branch (I had to publish it and then manually delete the old branch on my github to only have the new branch, eventhough VSCode was only showing me the renamed branch). I have deleted the master branch, but I'm not sure how to now update github to show that it was deleted. Help pls?

[hazy tinsel]

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[robust moon]

can you run git status?
I don't know anything about the source control UI in VSC, so I can only help you in terms of git commands at the terminal.

[spark schooner]

and I am trying to learn the VSCode UI now 😄

$ git status
On branch non_local_means_update_#3285
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/non_local_means_update_#3285'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

on github I see

[robust moon]

can you show git branch also?

[spark schooner]

$ git branch
* non_local_means_update_#3285

[robust moon]

git branch -d master
git push --delete

I think this would cause your deletion of master in the local, cloned repo to propogate to the repo on github.

note that github might prevent you from deleting the master branch. this would be in the repo settings on github.

(that's a github feature, not a git feature.)

[spark schooner]

$ git branch -d master
error: branch 'master' not found.

$ git push --delete
fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs

[robust moon]

(also I can't test these commands because I don't have any repos where I want to delete a branch on the remote 😛 )

can you show git remote? you might need to do git push -d origin baster

[spark schooner]

this is a fork of an open source project, they just recommend deleting master so you don't accidentally work on it, but I suppose if it's gone in my VSCode, then I can't work on it anyway

$ git remote
origin
upstream

[robust moon]

yeah, so git push -d origin master

[spark schooner]

! [remote rejected] master (refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master) I think we hit the github wall 😄

[robust moon]

indeed

[spark schooner]

that's fine, I was just wondering if I'm missing something obvious

thanks

[robust moon]

yw

[spark schooner]

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[hazy tinsel]

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