Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. GitLab offers several tools through its web-based UI that allow users to delete unprotected ...

--The branch itself is deleted, but the individual changes merged into other branches or master will of course be retained (unless you specify a squeeze/collapse/whatever they call it of all the ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...