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

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SOSergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date
Nov 13, 2007, 17:47 UTC
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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes: [...]

> It doesn't make sense to delete remote-tracking branches locally if
> they are still present at the remote.  The main purpose of a
> remote-tracking branch is to be identical to the real remote branch.

But I don't want to track those real remote branch anymore, so obviously I don't want anything that is "identical" to it, so deleting corresponding remote-tracking branch makes perfect sense, IMHO.

-- 
Sergei.
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Message 19 of 28 in “[Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?”
  1. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2007
  3. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinNov 13, 2007
  5. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 13, 2007
  7. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  8. Jan HudecNov 17, 2007
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2007
  10. Steffen ProhaskaNov 13, 2007
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2007
  12. osv@javad.comNov 13, 2007
  13. Lars HjemliNov 13, 2007
  14. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  15. Steffen ProhaskaNov 13, 2007
  16. Jan HudecNov 17, 2007
  17. Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page.Jan Hudec, Nov 17, 2007
  18. Sergei OrganovNov 19, 2007
  19. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  20. Andreas EricssonNov 13, 2007
  21. Andreas EricssonNov 13, 2007
  22. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2007
  23. J. Bruce FieldsNov 13, 2007
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 13, 2007
  25. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2007
  26. Steffen ProhaskaNov 14, 2007
  27. Sergei OrganovNov 13, 2007
  28. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2007

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