Question

When restricting remote branches to a list of 2 or three (editing the .git/config as seen in {^1}), refetching, carbage collectioning and cleaning all “refs” directories I still get a full list of all remote branches with git branch -avv {^2}

I expected to see v2 and v3 only as branches in the list of remote branches.
Any ideas how to fix this? Or is that the “git way” to present all remote branches either we might work with or not?

{^1}

[svn-remote "svn"]
url = https://example.com/svn/repos/MyRepo/SubPath
fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
branches = branches/{v2,v3}:refs/remotes/*

{^2}

* master         1234 [trunk: ahead 1] last msg master
  remotes/v1     2345 last msg svn branch v1
  remotes/v2     3456 last msg svn branch v2
  remotes/v3     4567 last msg svn branch v3
  remotes/v4     5678 last msg svn branch v4
  remotes/trunk  6789 last msg svn trunk

Answer 1

git branch -D -r remotes/v1 remotes/v4 remotes/trunk
rm -rf .git/svn/refs/remotes/{v1,v4,trunk}