When deleting remote git branch “error: unable to push to unqualified destination”

Question

I\'m trying to delete a remote git branch with

git push origin :my_remote_branch

and getting:

error: unable to push to unq         


        

Answer 1

Try following two options to delete remote branch forcibly

Option 1

get push origin --delete 

Option 2

git fetch -p origin
git branch -r -d origin/