From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: How to get rid of tracking branch? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:24:31 +0100 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <45D30D8F.50261DB0@eudaptics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 14 14:22:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHK65-0006gT-53 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932244AbXBNNWy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:22:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932254AbXBNNWy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:22:54 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51386 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244AbXBNNWx (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:22:53 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HHK5q-0006wQ-Ug for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:42 +0100 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:42 +0100 Received: from J.Sixt by cm56-163-160.liwest.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm56-163-160.liwest.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Call me clueless, but how the heck do I get rid of a tracking remote branch? I've cloned a repo locally, but in the clone I don't want to track all the topic branches of the origin. But git branch -d keeps saying it doesn't find the remote branch: $ git version git version 1.5.0 $ git clone mingw-git/ mingw-git2 [... all looks fine ...] $ cd mingw-git2/ $ git branch -a * devel origin/HEAD origin/devel origin/master origin/origin origin/repo-devel $ git branch -d origin/repo-devel error: branch 'origin/repo-devel' not found. $ git branch -d remotes/origin/repo-devel error: branch 'remotes/origin/repo-devel' not found. $ git branch -d heads/remotes/origin/repo-devel error: branch 'heads/remotes/origin/repo-devel' not found. $ git branch -d refs/heads/remotes/origin/repo-devel error: branch 'refs/heads/remotes/origin/repo-devel' not found. How do I delete remote branches? Do I have to rm .git/refs/heads/remotes/origin/repo-devel (I know I have to update the config, too, so that the next pull doesn't draw the branch in again, but I haven't done that at this point.) -- Hannes