Remove refs/remotes entirely

Question

When I do git ls-remote to my remote repository it shows:

HEAD
refs/heads/BranchA
refs/heads/master
refs/remotes/origin/BranchA
refs/remotes/origin/master

How can I delete the last two entries?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4890772/how-to-remove-remote-origin-refs-heads-master http://superuser.com/questions/283309/how-to-delete-the-git-reference-refs-original-refs-heads-master — ddavison, Aug 01 '13 at 13:26
Not just a duplicate, but Google for "git delete remote branch" seems to yield lots of results, too. — larsks, Aug 01 '13 at 13:27
I fear the first ones will deleted...these post doesn't answer that — Ahmad, Aug 01 '13 at 13:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 01 '13 at 13:47

1

You can do this by pushing an empty ref, so:

git push origin :BranchA :master

will do the trick. If you follow that with a 'git fetch --prune origin', then they won't show up in 'git branch -a' either.

edited Aug 01 '13 at 13:47

CharlesB

answered Aug 01 '13 at 13:30

Jamie Iles

How would it guarantee the first two ones will not be deleted.? – Ahmad Aug 01 '13 at 13:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 14:38

1

Simplest answer I found on SO itself and it worked like a charm.

git push repository :refs/remotes/origin/BranchA

git push repository :refs/remotes/origin/master

answered Aug 01 '13 at 14:38

Ahmad

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