My git branch is showing 'origin/master' and 'origin/HEAD' in Sourcetree and I don't know how to merge the two

Question

I recently merged a branch I was working on with the \'master\' branch. I must have (still kind of a git n00b) done something when pushing or pulling that created both an

Answer 1

It is just a pointer to master, a symbolic link if you wish. You can safely delete it by doing the following in a terminal (or git bash/cygwin for windows users):

1. navigate to your repository
2. execute: git remote set-head origin -d

now it should be gone:

$ git branch -r
origin/master