Support `git push --delete`

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cpp, git
Domain
cli

Research direction

The issue names no files. Start by finding where the existing push command is handled in the git2cpp command-line code and how it calls into libgit2, then see how a branch deletion would be expressed as a push refspec. Done means git push --delete <branch> removes the branch from the remote, which you can check by creating and pushing a branch in the git2cpp-test-private repo, deleting it, and confirming the remote no longer lists it.

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Description

enhancement

Supporting git push --delete would be useful, to delete a remote branch. This could be tested using the git2cpp-test-private repo by creating and pushing a new branch, then deleting it and checking that the remote no longer has it.

Dominant language
C++
Stars
7
Forks
5
Avg merge
2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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