removing broken names in Git (dropbox conflicted copy)

Question

I save my repo in dropbox, and one day (see date below) it went crazy. Now I get these warning every time I try to autocomplete a branch name

warning: ignori         


        

Answer 1

I got this warning possibly after updating my git version (ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10) and needed only to remove directories in .git/refs/remotes for old dangling remotes I no longer actually had configured.