How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git?

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How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git ? I am asking to stop tracking because in my concrete case, I want to delete the local branch, but not the remote one. Deleting the local one and pushing the deletion to remote will delete the remote branch as well: How do I delete a Git branch both locally and in GitHub? Can I just do git branch -d the_branch , and it won't get propagated when I later git push ? Will it only propagate if I were to...

Originally asked by Jason Cohen on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

As mentioned in Yoshua Wuyts ' answer , using git branch : git branch --unset-upstream Other options: You don't have to delete your local branch. Simply delete the local reference that is tracking the remote branch, i.e., the " remote tracking branch " (reference stored locally, as I explained here ): git branch -d -r origin/<remote branch name> -r, --remotes tells git to delete the remote-tracking branch (i.e., delete the branch set to track the remote branch). This will not delete the branch on the remote repo ! See " Having a hard time understanding git-fetch " there's no such concept of local tracking branches, only remote tracking branches. So origin/master is a remote tracking branch...

Full answer by VonC: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/3046478 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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