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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:

> $ rm .git/refs/heads/branch-name
> $ git prune
>
> to rid myself of the branch and associated objects. Is there a faster
> approach?

Perhaps the "official" way is

	$ git branch -d branch-name ;# you may need -D
        $ git prune

but that essentially is the same as what you are doing.  Note
that having dangling objects in your repository is not a crime,
and you do not have to religiously do "git prune" every time.