Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:
[...]
It doesn't make sense to delete remote-tracking branches locally if
they are still present at the remote. The main purpose of a
remote-tracking branch is to be identical to the real remote branch.
But I don't want to track those real remote branch anymore, so obviously
I don't want anything that is "identical" to it, so deleting
corresponding remote-tracking branch makes perfect sense, IMHO.
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Sergei.