Branches - Git Recipes - page 164

The first line:

* bar 7c9bc41 m3

informs you that your repository contains an ordinary local branch named doc . This
is your current branch and it points to the revision identified by 7c9bc41 with com-
ment m3 .
The second line:

doc 23d9855 [origin/doc] d3

informs you that your repository contains a local tracking branch named doc . The
branch that is tracked by this branch is named origin/doc .
The line:

remotes/origin/doc 23d9855 d3

informs you that your repository contains a remote tracking branch named origin/
doc .
Hence, your repository contains three different types of branches:

• Ordinary local branches
• Local tracking branches

• Remote tracking branches

Finish the recipe by deleting the relationship between the new repository and the
cloned original. You can do this with:

$ git remote rm origin

The output of

$ git branch -a -vv:
* bar 7c9bc41 m3

doc 23d9855 d3

foo 7c9bc41 m3