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Kareem Jeiroudi
Kareem Jeiroudi
14,984 Points
Posted by Kareem Jeiroudi
Kareem Jeiroudi
14,984 Points

Would deleting one branch delete the rest of sub-branches made after this branch?

Let's assume we created a branch named foo_feature, and then, and while I'm on this branch, I created another branch git branch bar_feature. In this case, would deleting the foo_feature branch delete bar_feature too?

2 Answers

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points
Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points

You will still be able to use your bar_feature branch :)

Please take look at this question on stack overflow as this sounds a lot like your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2613903/does-deleting-a-branch-in-git-remove-it-from-the-history

Kareem Jeiroudi
Kareem Jeiroudi
14,984 Points
Kareem Jeiroudi
Kareem Jeiroudi
14,984 Points

Thanks a lot for this helpful post. However, my question is not whether or not commits that were merged are attainable:

----O----*----*----/M----*    <-- master <-- HEAD
     \            /
      \--.----.--/--x---y     <-- deleted branch

But you can more or less imagine it this way:

----O----*----*----/M----*    <-- master <-- HEAD
     \            /
      \--.---P.--/--x---y     <-- foo_feature (deleted branch)
               \
                \-----G       <-- bar_feature

In this case, would deleting foo_feature delete the bar_feature branch too, because by the commit P both branches foo_feature and bar_feature shared the same log, if I'm not mistaken.

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points
Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points

It would not delete the bar_feature branch.

From the article: If the branch was merged into another branch before it was deleted then all of the commits will still be reachable from the other branch when the first branch is deleted. They remain exactly as they were.