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JDJohn Dlugosz <jdlugosz@tradestation.com>
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Apr 7, 2010, 16:38 UTC
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A couple times I've seen people who have some reference remotes/origin/foo after foo has been removed from origin.  What is the proper way to address that, other than removing the file directly?  It appears to not go away with a "fetch" even though it was deleted from the origin.  So what is the proper way to delete something on the origin so the deletion propagates?  I normally use "git push origin :foo".
--John
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