Git: dealing with remote branches from a removed remote

Question

git branch -a shows remotes/team/master and remotes/team/my-branch
git remote rm team says "error: Could not remove config section 'remote.team'" (because I edited the config file with a text editor).

Since the team remote is gone, how can I delete these (local) remote branches?

See also http://stackoverflow.com/a/24984486/6309 – VonC Jul 27 '14 at 19:02 — VonC, Jul 27 '14 at 19:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '13 at 20:04

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To delete remote tracking branches:

git branch -rd team/master

-r means remote. So -rd means to delete remote tracking branches.

To automatically remote any remote tracking branches which don't have an upstream branch anymore:

git remote prune

answered Apr 03 '13 at 20:04

Ikke

`git remote prune team` fails because `team` is not found. `git branch -rd team/master` works great. Thanks! – Robert Claypool Apr 03 '13 at 20:09
`git branch -rd team/HEAD` does not work. Any idea how to get rid of that one? – Robert Claypool Apr 03 '13 at 20:12
Found the [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6838756/23566): `git remote set-head team -d` – Robert Claypool Apr 03 '13 at 20:24

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