How do I remove deleted Git branches from Visual Studio 2015

Question

Visual Studio continues to show any branch I\'ve pulled, even after that branch has been deleted (and I do not have it as the selected branch).

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Answer 1

I had remote branches that would not go away even after they were deleted on the server. This tip about setting "Prune remote branches" worked for me. I found it here.

Go to Team Explorer, and click Home button. Then Settings > Repository Settings, and set "Prune remote branches during fetch" drop-down to True. Don't forget to click "Update" button to save your edit.

After changing the setting I did a fetch on one of the deleted branches and all of the deleted branches disappeared.