Ah, the branch -D option is what I want.  I think I may have seen this when 
looking at the documentation, but it sounded like it might affect upstream.

On Jul 22, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:

> You should normally push with: git push origin master
> 
> This will mean only master is pushed, it sounds like you are pushing
> all your branches.  I also normally do: git push origin master
> --dry-run to see exactly what is getting pushed upstream.
> 
> No need to reclone anything.  If you don't need the 1.7 and 1.8
> branches just delete them from your local copy using: git branch -D
> {1.8 branch name}
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM, William Kyngesburye
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd like to avoid downloading from scratch.
>> 
>> On Jul 22, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>> 
>>> you might want to try 'git push origin master' to make sure it just
>>> pushes the master branch.
>>> 
>>> In any case - maybe fetch a brand new clone to make sure?
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:01 PM, William Kyngesburye
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Twice today I've push a couple commits (last time was before the 1.8 
>>>> release), one <100KB and one <1KB, and both times the push has uploaded 
>>>> 11MB.  Yet all that appears at github is the changes I made (as I would 
>>>> expect).
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder if it has something to do with the stale 1.7 and 1.8 branches on 
>>>> my computer?  Those keep giving me [rejected] notices and the push ends 
>>>> with an error: failed to push some refs.  I don't think I've made any 
>>>> changes to these that haven't been pushed (certainly not the old 1.7 
>>>> branch).
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to un-checkout branches I'm no longer using?  I think I 
>>>> reset my 1.7 copy a while back so I didn't get push errors like this, but 
>>>> something got out of whack again.
>>>> 
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>>>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
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>>>> 
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>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>> 
>> "This is a question about the past, is it? ... How can I tell that the past 
>> isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate 
>> physical sensations and my state of mind?"
>> 
>> - The Ruler of the Universe
>> 
>> 
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>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>> 
>> Theory of the Universe
>> 
>> There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what 
>> the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be 
>> replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.  There is another 
>> theory which states that this has already happened.
>> 
>> -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2nd season intro
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[Trillian]  What are you supposed to do WITH a maniacally depressed robot?

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