Remove refs/remotes entirely [duplicate]

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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?

stackoverflow.com/questions/4890772/… superuser.com/questions/283309/… — sircapsalot, Aug 1 '13 at 13:26
Not just a duplicate, but Google for "git delete remote branch" seems to yield lots of results, too. — larsks, Aug 1 '13 at 13:27
I fear the first ones will deleted...these post doesn't answer that — Ahmad, Aug 1 '13 at 13:38

CharlesB · Answer 1 · 2013-08-01 13:47:52Z

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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.

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How would it guarantee the first two ones will not be deleted.? – Ahmad Aug 1 '13 at 13:38

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Ahmad · Answer 2 · 2013-08-01 14:38:52Z

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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 1 '13 at 14:38

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marked as duplicate by larsks, Mario Sannum, Wouter J, poke, VonC Mar 1 '14 at 18:13