Git remote branch deleted but still it appears in branch -a

Question

Let s say I had a branch named coolbranch in my repository   Now  I decided to delete it  both remotely and locally  with   git push origin  coolbranch git branch -D coolbranch   Great  Now the branch is really deleted   But when I run  git branch -a   I still get   remotes origin coolbranch   Something to notice  is that when I clone a new repository  everything is fine and git branch -a doesn t show the branch   I want to know - is there a way to delete the branch from the branch -a list without cloning a new instance

User · Answer

Use   git remote prune  lt remote gt    Where  lt remote gt  is a remote source name like origin or upstream   Example   git remote prune origin

User · Answer

Don t forget the awesome  git fetch -p   which fetches and prunes all origins

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Try   git remote prune origin   From the Git remote documentation   prune     Deletes all stale   remote-tracking branches under  lt name     These stale branches have already been   removed from the remote repository   referenced by  lt name   but are still   locally available in  remotes  lt name       With --dry-run option  report   what branches will be pruned  but do   not actually prune them

User · Answer

git remote prune origin  as suggested in the other answer  will remove all such stale branches  That s probably what you d want in most cases  but if you want to just remove that particular remote-tracking branch  you should do   git branch -d -r origin coolbranch    The -r is easy to forget      -r in this case will  List or delete  if used with -d  the remote-tracking branches   according to the Git documentation found here  https   git-scm com docs git-branch

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In our particular case  we use Stash as our remote Git repository  We tried all the previous answers and nothing was working  We ended up having to do the following   git branch    D branch-name  delete from local  git push origin  branch-name  delete from remote    Then when users went to pull changes  they needed to do the following   git fetch -p

[git] Git remote branch deleted, but still it appears in 'branch -a'

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