Does Git flow deletes branch on remote server?

Question

I am using git along with git flow. Here git flow has a develop branch. Whenever i need to start feature i type

git flow feature start new

a new branch feature/new is created. Then i do the changes and commit them using

git push origin feature/new

After comitting the changes I finish feature using

git flow feature finish new

it deletes feature/new branch locally. Now I am switched to develop branch by git flow and I again type

git push origin develop

which make changes to remote server develop branch

If I type git branch -a, the new branch got deleted from the local but it is there on the server with name remotes/origin/feature/new

Does git flow delete branches on remote server which are deleted at my local machine?

Please tell me if I am making some mistake.

Answer 1

Looking at the source it seems that the remote feature branch is deleted only if you call git flow feature finish with -F.

However, this fetches the remote before finishing the feature. From the docs:

-F fetch from $ORIGIN before performing finish

Otherwise you can delete the remote branch manually with:

git push origin :feature/new

Answer 2

May I suggest using the git-flow AVH Edition.

Like Stefan said, the original version only deletes the remote branch when you use -F, which is kinda strange. The AVH Edition fixes this quirky behavior, it will always delete the local and remote feature branch on a finish, unless you specify either

• --keep, which keeps the local and remote.
• --keeplocal, which keeps the local, but deletes the remote.
• --keepremote, which keeps the remote, but deletes the local.

You can find git-flow AVH Edition on github.

Answer 3

What I had to do:

git flow feature delete -f name_feature

The -f is necessary if there are changes inside the feature branch.

git push origin --delete feature/name_feature

That is to delete the remote branch as well.