Git force push --force --all does not update all branches-CodePudding

I am doing a hard delete of a file in my gitlab repo. I have 3 branches where i want this file to be removed from the commits.

My understanding with git is not that great

I have run the below command to completely remove any reference of a particular file from all of branches in my repo and they are all rewritten.

git filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch fileA.sh" -- --all

i ran then ran the below commands to clean up the repo on my local

rm -rf .git/refs/original/
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

Below are the branches that I hae , along side the remote-tracking branches

* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/mbyousaf2020-master-patch-95874
  remotes/origin/test

However, when running the git push --all --force it is only updating the master branch on my repo. How do I also update the remaining remote-tracking branches?

:qabash $ git push --all --force
Enumerating objects: 316, done.
Counting objects: 100% (316/316), done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (114/114), done.
Writing objects: 100% (314/314), 30.10 KiB | 10.03 MiB/s, done.
Total 314 (delta 195), reused 276 (delta 188)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (195/195), completed with 1 local object.
To gitlab.com:qa.git
   a28475e...40053dd master -> master (forced update)

What command do i need to run that it updates all my branches and completely removes any reference of the file in all my branches?

CodePudding user response：

You gave the answer yourself, when you listed the branches:

* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/mbyousaf2020-master-patch-95874
  remotes/origin/test

The remotes/origin branches are not yours; they are remote-tracking branches. You only have one branch — master. Therefore git push --all pushes all the branches you have, namely that one branch, master. Git is behaving exactly as expected.

I have 3 branches where i want this file to be removed from the commits.

No, you don't. You yourself have proved that you have only one branch, namely master.