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After using git fetch only to have a look at others' work, how to get rid of fetched branches?

I have a project with a friend with only one branch, master. My friend last worked on the project and I fetched (git fetch) his work just to have a look. This created a branch called origin/master:

Project ps1$ git branch -a
  * master
    remotes/origin/master

I checked it out (git checkout origin/master) and I don't agree with everything that was done, so I don't want to merge now. I'm going to let my friend work more on it. I tried to delete this fetched branch just to clean up, using either

git branch -d remotes/origin/master

or

git branch -d origin/master

but it said the branch was not found in both cases. How do I get rid of this branch (should I even do this?)?

Solution

  • git branch -rd origin/master should work.

    From the documentation:

    Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist in the remote repository or if git fetch was configured not to fetch them again.