How can I delete a remote branch in a local git repository?

Question

All the remote branches are visible as remotes in my local git repository after a git fetch.

How to selectively remove the remote branches in my local repository (not in the remote repository)?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6940595/how-can-i-delete-a-remote-branch-in-a-local-git-repository

Answer 1

I had a slightly different but similar issue, but the solution might be useful to others who stumble on this question...

I noticed that my local repository still had remote branches that no longer existed on the remote, so I wanted to remove them. The solution is simply to fetch with the --prune (or -p) option:

git fetch --prune