In my current repo I have the following output:
$ git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/master
remotes/public/master
I want to delete remotes/public/master from the branch list:
$ git branch -d remotes/public/master
error: branch 'remotes/public/master' not found.
Also, the output of git remote is strange, since it does not list public:
$ git remote show
origin
How can I delete 'remotes/public/master' from the branch list?
Update, tried the git push command:
$ git push public :master
fatal: 'public' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
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I had a similar problem. None of the answers helped. In my case, I had two removed remote repositories showing up permanently.
My last idea was to remove all references to it by hand.
Let's say the repository is called “Repo”. I did:
find .git -name Repo
So, I deleted the corresponding files and directories from the .git folder (this folder could be found in your Rails app or on your computer https://stackoverflow.com/a/19538763/6638513).
Then I did:
grep Repo -r .git
This found some text files in which I removed the corresponding lines. Now, everything seems to be fine.
Usually, you should leave this job to git.
I didn't know about git branch -rd, so the way I have solved issues like this for myself is to treat my repo as a remote repo and do a remote delete. git push . :refs/remotes/public/master. If the other ways don't work and you have some weird reference you want to get rid of, this raw way is surefire. It gives you the exact precision to remove (or create!) any kind of reference.
git gc --prune=now is not what you want.
git remote prune public
or git remote prune origin # if thats the the remote source
is what you want
git push origin --delete <branch name>
Referenced from: http://www.gitguys.com/topics/adding-and-removing-remote-branches/
Only slightly related, but still might be helpful in the same situation as we had - we use a network file share for our remote repository. Last week things were working, this week we were getting the error "Remote origin did not advertise Ref for branch refs/heads/master. This Ref may not exist in the remote or may be hidden by permission settings"
But we believed nothing had been done to corrupt things. The NFS does snapshots so I reviewed each "previous version" and saw that three days ago, the size in MB of the repository had gone from 282MB to 33MB, and about 1,403 new files and 300 folders now existed. I queried my co-workers and one had tried to do a push that day - then cancelled it.
I used the NFS "Restore" functionality to restore it to just before that date and now everythings working fine again. I did try the prune previously, didnt seem to help. Maybe the harsher cleanups would have worked.
Hope this might help someone else one day!
Jay
The accepted answer didn't work for me when the ref was packed. This does however:
$ git remote add public http://anything.com/bogus.git
$ git remote rm public
git push public :master
This would delete the remote branch named master as Kent Fredric has pointed out.
To list remote-tracking branches:
git branch -r
To delete a remote-tracking branch:
git branch -rd public/master
In my case I was trying to delete entries that were saved in .git/packed-refs. You can edit this plain text file and delete entries from it that git br -D doesn't know how to touch (At least in ver 1.7.9.5).
I found this solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11050880/1695680
All you need to do is
$ git branch -rd origin/whatever It's that simple. There is no reason to call a gc here.
All you need to do is
git fetch -p
It'll remove all your local branches which are remotely deleted.
If you are on git 1.8.5+ you can set this automatically
git config fetch.prune true
or
git config --global fetch.prune true
Source: Stackoverflow.com