How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git

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How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git   I am asking to stop tracking because in my concrete case  I want to delete the local branch  but not the remote one  Deleting the local one and pushing the deletion to remote will delete the remote branch as well    How do I delete a Git branch both locally and in GitHub    Can I just do git branch -d the branch  and it won t get propagated when I later git push    Will it only propagate if I were to run git push origin  the branch later on

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As mentioned in Yoshua Wuyts  answer  using git branch   git branch --unset-upstream   Other options   You don t have to delete your local branch   Simply delete the local branch that is tracking the remote branch   git branch -d -r origin  lt remote branch name gt    -r  --remotes tells git to delete the remote-tracking branch  i e   delete the branch set to track the remote branch   This will not delete the branch on the remote repo   See  Having a hard time understanding git-fetch      there s no such concept of local tracking branches  only remote tracking branches    So origin master is a remote tracking branch for master in the origin repo   As mentioned in Dobes Vandermeer s answer  you also need to reset the configuration associated to the local branch   git config --unset branch  lt branch gt  remote git config --unset branch  lt branch gt  merge      Remove the upstream information for  lt branchname gt     If no branch is specified it defaults to the current branch     git 1 8   Oct  2012  commit b84869e by Carlos Mart  n Nieto  carlosmn    That will make any push pull completely unaware of origin  lt remote branch name gt

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You can use this way to remove your remote branch  git remote remove  lt your remote branch name gt

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To remove the association between the local and remote branch run   git config --unset branch  lt local-branch-name gt  remote git config --unset branch  lt local-branch-name gt  merge   Optionally delete the local branch afterwards if you don t need it   git branch -d  lt branch gt    This won t delete the remote branch

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This is not an answer to the question  but I couldn t figure out how to get decent code formatting in a comment above    so auto-down-reputation-be-damned here s my comment   I have the recipe submtted by  Dobes in a fancy shmancy  alias  entry in my  gitconfig     to untrack a local branch when I can t remember  git config --unset  cbr     f    git symbolic-ref -q HEAD 2 gt  dev null   sed -e  s refs heads         f  bruntrack     f    br   1 - git cbr           rm  git config --get branch  br remote         tr  git config --get branch  br merge            rm  tr        amp  amp  echo     untrack  not a tracking branch   br    amp  amp  return 1        git config --unset branch  br remote  git config --unset branch  br merge        echo     untrack  branch  br no longer tracking  rm  tr    return 0     f    Then I can just run    git bruntrack branchname

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You can delete the remote-tracking branch using  git branch -d -r origin  lt remote branch name gt    as VonC mentions above  However  if you keep your local copy of the branch  git push will still try to push that branch  which could give you a non-fast-forward error as it did for ruffin   This is because the config push default defaults to matching which means      matching - push all matching branches  All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be matching  This is the default     see http   git-scm com docs git-config under push default   Seeing as this is probably not what you wanted when you deleted the remote-tracking branch  you can set push default to upstream  or tracking if you have git  lt  1 7 4 3      upstream - push the current branch to its upstream branch    using  git config push default upstream   and git will stop trying to push branches that you have  stopped tracking    Note  The simpler solution would be to just rename your local branch to something else  That would eliminate some potential for confusion  as well

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Here s a one-liner to remove all remote-tracking branches matching a pattern   git branch -rd   git branch -a   grep   pattern     cut -d    -f2-10   xargs

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The easiest way to do this is to delete the branch remotely and then use   git fetch --prune  aka git fetch -p

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To remove the upstream for the current branch do     git branch --unset-upstream   This is available for Git v 1 8 0 or newer    Sources  1 7 9 ref  1 8 0 ref   source

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The simplest way is to edit  git config  Here is an example file   core          repositoryformatversion   0         filemode   true         bare   false         logallrefupdates   true         ignorecase   true  remote  origin           url   git example com repo-name         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    branch  test1           remote   origin         merge   refs heads test1  branch  master           remote   origin         merge   refs heads master   Delete the line merge   refs heads test1 in the test1 branch section

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git branch --unset-upstream stops tracking all the local branches  which is not desirable   Remove the  branch  branch-name   section from the  git config file followed by   git branch -D  branch-name   amp  amp  git branch -D -r  origin branch-name    works out the best for me

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