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

3 messages from 2009-05-12 to 2009-05-12. Participants: Yakup Akbay, Björn Steinbrink, Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19309

## Yakup Akbay, 2009-05-12 06:56

Subject: How can I remove a remote branch from local repo that is removed at the server side
Message-ID: <4A091DB3.4070509@ubicom.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A091DB3.4070509%40ubicom.com

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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?


Regards,
Yakup


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## Björn Steinbrink, 2009-05-12 07:27

Subject: Re: How can I remove a remote branch from local repo that is removed at the server side
Message-ID: <20090512072743.GA24446@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090512072743.GA24446%40atjola.homenet
In-Reply-To: <4A091DB3.4070509@ubicom.com>

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

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## Johannes Sixt, 2009-05-12 07:32

Subject: Re: How can I remove a remote branch from local repo that is removed at the server side
Message-ID: <4A0925FF.5030307@viscovery.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A0925FF.5030307%40viscovery.net
In-Reply-To: <4A091DB3.4070509@ubicom.com>

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Yakup Akbay schrieb:
> 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?

Two options:

  git branch -D -r origin/work
  git remote prune origin

The second removes *all* of origin's tracking branches that are not in the
remote anymore. Use it only if you are sure you want that to happen.

-- Hannes

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