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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Subject: Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:47:13 +0300
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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
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> 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.