Delete branches in Bitbucket

Question

I've created lots of branches in one of our repositories. Those branches are for testing before it will be pulled to the master. Now I see lots of them on the list and they we will never use it again. How to delete those branches directly to Bitbucket?

Answer 1

If the branches are only local, you can use -d if the branch has been merged, like

git branch -d branch-name

If the branch contains code you never plan on merging, use -D instead.

If the branch is in the upstream repo (on Bitbucket) you can remove the remote reference by

git push origin :branch-name

Also, if you're on the Bitbucket website, you can remove branches you've pushed by going to the Feature branches tab under Commits on the site. There you'll find an ellipsis icon. Click that, then choose Delete branch. Just be sure you want to drop all the changes there!

Answer 2

For deleting branch from Bitbucket,

1. Go to Overview (Your repository > branches in the left sidebar)
2. Click the number of branches (that should show you the list of branches)
3. Click on the branch that you want to delete
4. On top right corner, click the 3 dots (besides Merge button).
5. There is the option of "Delete Branch" if you have rights.

Answer 3

In addition to the answer given by @Marcus you can now also delete a remote branch via:

git push [remote-name] --delete [branch-name] 

Answer 4

in Bitbucket go to branches in left hand side menu.

1. Select your branch you want to delete.
2. Go to action column, click on three dots (...) and select delete.

Answer 5

I could delete most of my branches but one looked like this and I could not delete it:

Turned out someone had set Branch permissions under Settings and from there unchecked Allow deleting this branch. Hope this can help someone.

Update: Where settings are located from question in comment. Enter the repository that you wan't to edit to get the menu. You might need admin privileges to change this.

Answer 6

Step 1 : Login in Bitbucket

Step 2 : Select Your Repository in Repositories list.

Step 3 : Select branches in left hand side menu.

Step4 : Cursor point on branch click on three dots (...) Select Delete (See in Bellow Image)

Answer 7

If you are using a pycharm IDE for development and you already have added Git with it. you can directly delete remote branch from pycharm. From toolbar VCS-->Git-->Branches-->Select branch-->and Delete. It will delete it from remote git server.

Answer 8

I've wrote this small script when the number of branches in my repo exceeded several hundreds. I did not know about the other methods (with CLI) so I decided to automate it with selenium. It simply opens Bitbucket website, goes to Branches, scrolls down the page to the end and clicks on every branch options menu -> clicks Delete button -> clicks Yes. It can be tuned to keep the last N (100 - default) branches and skip branches with specific names (master, develop - default, could be more). If this fits for you, you can try that way.

https://github.com/globad/remove-old-branches

All you need is to clone the repository, download the proper version of Chrome-webdriver, input few constants like URL to your repository and run the script.

The code is simple enough to understand. If you have any questions, write comments / create an Issue.

Answer 9

In Android Studio, the options down the right corner of the IDE:

• Change/checkout other local branch
• Delete unwanted local branches (i.e. v0.0.1...)
• Delete unwanted remote branches (i.e. origin/v0.0.1...) -- this step will delete branches in BitBucket if the branches are not prevented to be deleted and they are not the MAIN BRANCH.

Answer 10

Try this command, it will purge all branches that have been merged to the develop branch.

for i in `git branch -r --merged origin/develop| grep origin | grep -v '>' \
   | grep -v master | grep -v develop | sed -E "s|^ *origin/||g"`; \
do \
   git push origin $i --delete; \
done

Answer 11

If you like fun, then you can just go to the listing page of you branches (for example merged) and just run in the javascript console:

document.querySelectorAll('tr td div a:first-child').forEach(function(item) { fetch('https://bitbucket.org/snippets/new?owner=<yourprofilenick>', {'credentials': 'same-origin'}).then((response) => {return response.text()}).then(function(string) { return /'csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='(.*)'/g.exec(string)[1] }).then(function(csrf) { if (!~item.innerText.indexOf('/')) return; 
 fetch(`https://bitbucket.org/!api/2.0/repositories/<your_organization_path>/refs/branches/${item.innerText}`, {headers: {"x-csrftoken": csrf}, credentials: "same-origin", method: 'DELETE'}).then(() => console.log(`${item.innerText} DELETED!`)) }) })

BEFORE RUN

• replace <yourprofilenick> with your BitBucket nick
• replace <your_organization_path> with your organization path

HOW IT WORKS

First we need a page with with a CSRF token in the page source, so I choose:

https://bitbucket.org/snippets/new?owner=<yourprofilenick>

Then for each branch (in a branch listing) it gets CSRF token and deletes that branch.

BEWARE

Remeber to prevent sensitive branches before deleting in repo settings.

It WON'T delete the main branch.

ADDITIONAL INFO

You have to be logged in.

It deletes only branches visible on that page (so to delete the rest of branches you have to go to the next page).