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I have moved an SVN repo to Git and probably due to a number of clonings, I'm now left with a bunch of branches that look like

BranchA origin/BranchA remotes/BranchA remotes/origin/BranchA remotes/origin/origin/BranchA

i.e. the same branch is listed a number of times. How can I clean this mess up. There are > 50 branches, some are not needed at all, and for the rest I'd be happy with just having them once.

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This is what git remote show origin looks like for a certain case:

Remote branches: BranchA tracked origin/BranchA tracked

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Local branches configured for 'git pull': origin/BranchA merges with remote BranchA

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Local refs configured for 'git push': BranchA pushes to BranchA (up to date) origin/BranchA pushes to origin/BranchA (up to date)
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You can remove these branches by using this command:

git push origin :branch_name

To remove the BranchA branch:

git push origin :BranchA

To remove the origin/BranchA branch:

git push origin :origin/BranchA

Alternatively you could use git branch -dr BranchA and so on.

Remove every branch except BranchA and origin/BranchA. You may have deleted the origin remote, in which case you should remove the remotes remote and re-add it as the origin remote.

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Which ones should I remove? Let's say I want to keep one of the BranchA's, would it be remotes/BranchA?
git rm works on files, not branches (neither local or “remote tracking”). The syntax of the arguments seems to indicate that you intended to write about using git push to delete branches out of the remote repository. The OP also has some number of local and “remote-tracking” branches to delete, too (git branch -d along with git branch -dr or git remote prune).
@Chris Johnsen: you're right, I should have use git push or git branch -dr. I'll update the answer to reflect this now.
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