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Deleting a remote branch

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To delete a remote branch in Git: 

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

or 

git push [remote-name] :[branch-name]
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Working with remotes:
* Syntax
* Adding a new remote repository
* Updating from upstream repository
* Updating with local changes
* Deleting a remote branch
* Changing remote URL
* List existing remotes
* Pull overwrite local
* Removing local copies of deleted remote branches
* Pull code from remote
* Set upstream on a hew branch
* Get the URL for a specific remote
* Set the URL for a specific remote
* Show information about a specific remote
* Pull permission denied
* Renaming a remote
* Changing a remote repository
* ls-remote to query remote without fetch
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