git/refs/remotes// directory) showing you the state of a remote branch, then you can stop having it 'tracked' (having it updated) by overwriting the current list of held remote-tracking branches with your own new custom list: ❯ git remote set-branches origin/main, origin/dev) that show up in your git log (and If you're talking about branches of the name / (e.g. main, dev) that are configured to push-to and pull-from an upstream, then you can disable that with: ❯ git branch -unset-upstream If you're talking about local branches (e.g.

That would eliminate some potential for confusion, as well. Note: The simpler solution would be to just rename your local branch to something else. Upstream - push the current branch to its upstream branch.Īnd git will stop trying to push branches that you have 'stopped tracking.' Seeing as this is probably not what you wanted when you deleted the remote-tracking branch, you can set fault to upstream (or tracking if you have git < 1.7.4.3) All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be matching. This is because the config fault defaults to matching which means: However, if you keep your local copy of the branch, git push will still try to push that branch (which could give you a non-fast-forward error as it did for ruffin). You can delete the remote-tracking branch using git branch -d -r origin/Īs VonC mentions above. That will make any push/pull completely unaware of origin/. 2012, commit b84869e by Carlos Martín Nieto ( carlosmn)) If no branch is specified it defaults to the current branch. So origin/master is a remote tracking branch for master in the origin repoĪs mentioned in Dobes Vandermeer's answer, you also need to reset the configuration associated to the local branch: git config -unset branch.remote There's no such concept of local tracking branches, only remote tracking branches. See ' Having a hard time understanding git-fetch' This will not delete the branch on the remote repo! r, -remotes tells git to delete the remote-tracking branch (i.e., delete the branch set to track the remote branch). Simply delete the local branch that is tracking the remote branch: git branch -d -r origin/ You don't have to delete your local branch. As mentioned in Yoshua Wuyts' answer, using git branch: git branch -unset-upstream

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