I think that git branch -rD only deletes the local reference to remote branches.
If you want to delete the branch in your remote repository, for example PWB1, type git push origin :PWB1 William Seiti Mizuta @williammizuta Desenvolvedor da Caelum On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Jeffrey Marans <jmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done a cvs2git conversion of a number of cvs modules and was unable > to exclude the private working branches, PWB*. > I'd like to delete them from the git repos and have tried the following, > but the branches live on regardless of the output messages. > By that I mean if I clone another instance of test, the branches still > show up on the origin server. > > mkdir test > cd test > git clone git@git:/git/gitroot/oacis/test > cd test > git branch -r | grep PWB > origin/PWB1 > origin/PWB10 > origin/PWB2 > origin/PWB3 > origin/PWB4 > origin/PWB5 > origin/PWB6 > origin/PWB7 > origin/PWB8 > origin/PWB9 > > for i in `git branch -r | grep PWB`;do git branch -rD $i;done > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB1 (was 4e34650). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB10 (was 2992912). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB2 (was b9126e8). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB3 (was e48d2d1). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB4 (was 32c90f3). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB5 (was 234f826). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB6 (was 72409ca). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB7 (was 234f826). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB8 (was e30b526). > Deleted remote branch origin/PWB9 (was a8ab921). > > -- > > > --
