Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?

> This is what I've got in Documentation/glossary.txt so far:
> 
> [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch:
>     A "remote-tracking branch" is a branch set up to track the
>     state of a branch in a remote repository which the user has named. 
>     These branches follow exactly the same rules as the branches which
>     reside in the remote repository, except that they are manipulated
>     by `git fetch` instead of `git push`. That is, they can only be
>     updated if the update would result in a 
>     <<def_fastforward,fast forward>>, or if the user supplies the 
>     '--force' option. 
>     They cannot be checked out or committed to by users, but serve
>     solely as local reference-pointers to their corresponding branches
>     in the remote repository.
>     The most common example of a remote-tracking branch is origin/master.