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Created by: ayalaio

I don't see a reason for satellites to keep tracking old deleted branches on the remote.

Actually it can cause issues.

For example, if a branch called a/b is deleted on the remote and then a branch called a/b/c is created.

The satellite will fail to fetch since it is already tracking a/b Making it impossible to now track branch a/b/c

That is because If branch a/b exists, no branch named a/b/anything can be created.

The satellite becomes useless since it can't fetch no more.

Fetching with --prune flag $ git fetch --prune will fetch while pruning untraceable branches.