Re: Getting rid of a stale remote?

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get rid of a stale remote.  I deleted the remote via
>> `git remote rm <remote>` and that removed it from .git/config but for
>> some reason the references stayed in the listing of `git branch -a`.
>
> See `git remote prune`.

From the remote man page:
>   prune
>       Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches
>       have already been removed from the remote repository referenced by
>       <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>".

I'm unclear as to how this solves my problem.  Consider the following:

    $ git remote
    a
    b
    c
    $ git branch -a
    a
    b
    c
    remotes/a/branch
    remotes/b/branch
    remotes/c/branch
    remotes/d/branch
    $ git remote prune d
    fatal: 'd' does not appear to be a git repository
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
    $ git remote rm d
    error: Could not remove config section 'remote.d'

I would like to get rid of the `remotes/d/branch` entry.

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