Remove dist-git branches

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Description

Release Engineering is often asked by maintainers to remove branches in dist-git by maintainers.

Action

1. Log into pkgs.fedoraproject.org

 ssh <fas-username>@pkgs.fedoraproject.org

2. Change to the package's directory

cd /srv/git/rpms/<package>.git/

3. Remove the branch

git branch -D <branchname> 

Verification

To verify just list the branches.

git branch

Consider Before Running

Make sure that the branch in question isn't one of our pre-created branches f??/master, olpc?/master, el?/master