How to forcefully delete a remote branch in GitHub?

Question

I have 2 remote branches :

 - pending-issues-in-project
 - new-issues-in-project

I tried to delete pending-issues-in-project lik

Answer 1

You have to do:

git remote prune origin

to remove that remote tracking branch in your local git repository ( prune removes any branch that does not exist in the remote origin anymore). After that, you will not see it under git branch -a