Disconnect local branch from remote one

Question

I have two local branches A and B tracking the same remote branch C. I want to keep all the branches but I want to remove connection A -> C but keep the connection B -> C. how can i do that?

Laguna

Answer 1

Remove the asaociaton between the local and remote branch

git config --unset branch.<local branch A>.remote
git config --unset branch.<local branch A>.merge

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Alternatively in your project's .git/config file remove the merge statement corresponding to the branch A.

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Alternatively you can create a new branch D from A, and then delete the original branch A if needed.

git checkout A
git checkout -b D

#Delete A if needed
git branch -D A

Ferrotype

As of git 1.8, you have another variant to remove the association: git branch --unset-upstream A – Chatterjee