tanmayrauth opened a new issue, #1165:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-go/issues/1165
### Feature Request / Improvement
The `iceberg branch create` and `iceberg tag create` commands landed in
#1068, but there's no symmetric `delete` yet. Once you've made a stale ref via
the CLI, the only way to clean it up is to drop into a catalog client — which
is an awkward gap.
Proposed shape:
iceberg branch delete <table-id> <branch-name> [--yes]
iceberg tag delete <table-id> <tag-name> [--yes]
Both should mirror the existing create commands in
`cmd/iceberg/branch_tag.go` — confirmation prompt unless `--yes`, error if the
ref doesn't exist, and a structured result via the `Output` interface so
`--output json` keeps working.
The underlying API is already there: `MetadataBuilder.RemoveSnapshotRef`
in `table/metadata.go` and `NewRemoveSnapshotRefUpdate` in `table/updates.go`.
A handler can mirror `runBranchCreate` and just swap in the remove call.
One thing worth flagging: `RemoveSnapshotRef` clears `currentSnapshotID`
when the removed ref is `main`, which would leave the table headless. The CLI
should reject `branch delete <table> main` before ever calling the API.
@zeroshade @laskoviymishka this can be a good-first-issue.
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