[Bug 1321836] [NEW] "git remote remove" does not always remove remote branches

[Michael Haggerty]

On 05/21/2014 07:05 PM, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> In my local polipo git directory I remove an old entry to where upstream
> was doing the work (can't remember the URL, upstream now hosts on
> github).  The command I used was "git remote remove jussieu" and that
> went fine.  Yet, I still have all remote branches listed in "git branch
> -av".
> 
> $ git branch -av|grep jus
>   remotes/jussieu/1.0.4-branch  12b9179 Don't revalidate objects >= CHUNK_SIZE that aren't in disk cache.
>   remotes/jussieu/master        ec4d638 Cache to disk even when "HTTP://" scheme is uppercase
>   remotes/jussieu/polipo-chrisd b92db57 Add -fno-strict-aliasing to prevent compile warnings on some systems.

Since you typed "git branch -a", it is conceivable that these are local
branches with funny full names like

    refs/heads/remotes/jussieu/master

rather than remote references with full names like

    refs/remotes/jussieu/master

Just to be sure, could you run

    git for-each-ref | grep jussieu

to display the references' full names?

Michael

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Title:
  "git remote remove" does not always remove remote branches

Status in “git” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In my local polipo git directory I remove an old entry to where
  upstream was doing the work (can't remember the URL, upstream now
  hosts on github).  The command I used was "git remote remove jussieu"
  and that went fine.  Yet, I still have all remote branches listed in
  "git branch -av".

  $ git branch -av|grep jus
    remotes/jussieu/1.0.4-branch  12b9179 Don't revalidate objects >= CHUNK_SIZE that aren't in disk cache.
    remotes/jussieu/master        ec4d638 Cache to disk even when "HTTP://" scheme is uppercase
    remotes/jussieu/polipo-chrisd b92db57 Add -fno-strict-aliasing to prevent compile warnings on some systems.

  This is on a trusty installation with git 1:1.9.1-1.

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