Re: How can I remove a remote branch from local repo that is removed at the server side

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: May 12, 2009, 07:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20090512072743.GA24446@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <4A091DB3.4070509@ubicom.com>

On 2009.05.12 09:56:51 +0300, Yakup Akbay wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> consider the following situation:
>
>    adg@adghp:~/myrepo$ git branch -a
>    * master
>      origin/HEAD
>      origin/master
>      origin/work
>
> I want to remove origin/work from my local repository which is no more  
> existing at the origin. git fetch (or pull) does not help either.  
> However, it disappears when I remove the following line in  
> .git/packed-refs file:
>
>    021a032317425b136b5430c7dead94328996b9d0 refs/remotes/origin/work
>
> Is there command line version to do it?

To manually delete the remote tracking branch:
	git branch -r -d origin/work

To prune all remote tracking branches for "origin" for which the
corresponding branch on the remote is gone:
	git remote prune origin

Björn