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

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

[Cc: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>, git@vger.kernel.org]
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Sergei Organov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to get rid of origin/pu remote tracking branch. What do I do? I
> RTFM git-branch. What does it suggest?
> 
> git branch -d -r origin/pu
> 
> So far so good. However, it doesn't seem to work in practice:
 

> $ git branch -d -r origin/pu
> Deleted remote branch origin/pu.
> $ git remote show origin
> * remote origin
>   URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>   Remote branch(es) merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
>     master
>   New remote branches (next fetch will store in remotes/origin)
>     pu
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What???  
>   Tracked remote branches
>     html maint man master next todo

Check out what do you have in .git/config file, in the [remote "origin"]
section. Most probably (if you cloned this repository using new enough git)
you have wildcard refspec there, which means that git would pick all new
branches when fetching / pulling from given repository. The wildcard
refspec is not documented adequately, so I'm not sure if adding

        fetch = !refs/heads/pu

would help, or do you have to replace wildcard refspec by explicit list of
branches you want to fetch.

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Jakub Narebski
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