Deleting remote master branch, refused due to being the current branch

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Tomilov Anatoliy picture Tomilov Anatoliy · Dec 26, 2012 · Viewed 50k times · Source

How do I delete a remote master branch from GitHub/Bitbucket?

I'm trying:

# git push bb --delete master
remote: bb/acl: user is allowed. accepted payload.[K
remote: error: refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master[K
To ssh://[email protected]/user/reponame.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (deletion of the current branch prohibited)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[email protected]/user/reponame.git'

Also I tried

git push bb :master

But all this does not work.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Dec 26, 2012

Note: for Bitbucket, you would change the default branch by accessing the settings of your repository, and changing the branch at the "Main branch" combo box.

Main branch on Bitbucket

Once the main branch is no longer master, then you can push and remove master.

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