deleteBranch

[isomorphic-git]

deleteBranch

[billiegoose]

@bokuweb You rock! I would lean towards separate commands e.g.

Create stuff:

• add
• branch
• tag

List stuff:

• listFiles
• listBranches
• listTags

Delete stuff:

• remove
• deleteBranch
• deleteTag

Helps prevent making mistakes like accidentally delete when you meant to create, etc.

[billiegoose]

What about pushing changes after removing branch locally?

Add a delete: boolean parameter to the push command that sets oid to... I think it's 20 zeros? No, 40 zeros. (20 bytes, in hex). It's something like that.

At least... that would be the way to do it that most resembles the git CLI. It would actually tree-shake better to make deleteRemoteBranch its own function.

Edit: Yeah I'm leaning towards adding a deleteRemoteBranch command.

[bokuweb]

@wmhilton Thanks :) I'll try to implement if get a chance.

[TomasHubelbauer]

How'd deleting a branch actually work? I think it would mean removing a Git ref, right, because branches are refs and refs are Git objects? Can you post a quick and rough rundown of what it would entail?

Edit: "ninja-edit" after a good nights sleep to use actual English grammar and shizz

[billiegoose]

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[knownasilya]

I don't see a delete remote branch in the docs, is there a way to do that?

[crutchcorn]

Is there plans to implement something along the lines of deleteRemoteBranch? If not, are we able to create a GH issue for tracking purposes?

[aborba-simeon]

Is there plans to implement something along the lines of deleteRemoteBranch? If not, are we able to create a GH issue for tracking purposes?

Any updates on this?

[jcubic]

You need to create another issue for this. Also if you want this to be added to the library someone needs to write the code, the main author left the project so it's up to contributors like you to implement this.

[bokuweb]

@wmhilton Hi :) I'll implement this command. So, should I implement it with either deleteBranch command or branch command with --delete option ?

[billiegoose]

Yes! So, basically all a deleteBranch command needs to do is:

• delete ${gitdir}/${GitRefManager.expand({ref})}
• delete the line in ${gitdir}/packed-refs if it exists

[billiegoose]

If you want to get super fancy about it, the ideal implementation would be to add a deleteRef function to GitRefManager and then wrap that.

[jcubic]

What about pushing changes after removing branch locally?

[aborba-simeon]

You need to create another issue for this. Also if you want this to be added to the library someone needs to write the code, the main author left the project so it's up to contributors like you to implement this.

Excellent, thank you for the fast reply.