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I decided to remove the upstream remote reference from my local repository, but git-branch keeps showing remotes/upstream/master. I pruned the references, but it keeps showing upstream. How do I clean it properly?

Here is what I had, what I did, and what I have:

Fetching from upstream was broken, that's why I decided to remove upstream (since I'm not using it anyways):

git fetch --all Fetching origin remote: Enumerating objects: 9, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. remote: Total 9 (delta 4), reused 8 (delta 4), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (9/9), done. From github.com:dockerstuff/docker-jupyterhub-deploy a977d21..7393fc7 master -> origin/master Fetching upstream fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/master error: Could not fetch upstream 
$ git remote -v origin [email protected]:dockerstuff/docker-jupyterhub-deploy (fetch) origin [email protected]:dockerstuff/docker-jupyterhub-deploy (push) upstream https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub-deploy-docker.git (fetch) upstream https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub-deploy-docker.git (push) 
$ git branch --all * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master remotes/upstream/master 
$ git remote remove upstream 
$ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master remotes/upstream/master 
$ git fetch -p --all Fetching origin 
$ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master remotes/upstream/master 
git remote -v origin [email protected]:dockerstuff/docker-jupyterhub-deploy (fetch) origin [email protected]:dockerstuff/docker-jupyterhub-deploy (push) 
$ git remote prune upstream fatal: 'upstream' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. 
$ git remote prune origin 
git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master remotes/upstream/master

Why is remote/upstram/master still there?

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    The title says origin but your question uses upstream? Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 17:55
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    git branch -r -d upstram/master Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 18:37

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This is because the git branch -a command lists both local and remote branches.

The remotes/upstream/master branch you see is a remote tracking branch that is stored locally to keep track of the state of the upstream repository.

Try this once :

git branch -d -r upstream/master

After that if you run git branch -a again, you can check if the remotes/upstream/master branch is no longer listed.

Please let me know if you still issues.

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