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Delete Branch Head

Learn how to delete the HEAD of a branch.

May 30, 2023

To fix a broken HEAD, run the following command:

pachctl delete commit <commit-ID>

When you delete a HEAD commit, Pachyderm performs the following actions:

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This command will only succeed if the HEAD commit has no children on any branch. pachctl delete commit will error when attempting to delete a HEAD commit with children.

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Are you wondering how a HEAD commit can have children?

A commit can be the head of a branch and still have children. For instance, given a master branch in a repository named repo, if you branch master by running pachctl create branch repo@staging --head repo@master, the master’s HEAD will have an alias child on staging.