git branch -a shows branch that can not be removed locally and is not present in remote

Asked May 31 '22 at 20:07

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I have a repo hosted in Github. The command git branch -a shows the following:

* develop
  master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/release-031

The (old) release-031 is not present in the Github repo, and I can not delete it locally either:

$ git branch -d release-031
error: branch 'release-031' not found.

How can I remove these phantom old branch?

asked May 31 '22 at 20:07

Gabriel

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Try running `git remote update` followed by `git remote prune`. – larsks May 31 '22 at 20:17
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit%5D+remove+remote+branch – phd May 31 '22 at 20:21
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`git branch -d -r origin/release-031`, `git fetch --prune`, `git remote prune origin` – phd May 31 '22 at 20:22

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