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

From: Jan Hudec <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:12:56 +0100

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 20:58:20 +0300, [email-masked] wrote:
> Guys, could you please read man git-branch? What do you think this
> example is doing?:
> 
> <quote Documentation/git-branch.txt>
> Delete unneeded branch::
> +
> ------------
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
> $ cd my.git
> $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
> $ git branch -D test                                    <2>
> ------------
> +
> <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
> </quote>
> 
> That's *exactly* what I did! And it *doesn't work*! Well, it does delete
> the branches, but they are automagically re-created on the next fetch,
> so "deleting" them this way is useless.

Of course it *does* work. It *deletes* the branches. There is not a single
word about stopping fetch getting them!

Obviously given that the example is slightly contrived, it should really
be mentioned that it does not affect fetch at all.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <[email-masked]>