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I have a local branch, say hotfix . I put it up on GitHub using $ git push -u origin hotfix Then after merging the branch, I want to delete it. So I type $ git branch -d hotfix which deletes the branch locally. However, the remote branch is still on GitHub. Of course when I look at my remote branches, $ git branch -r origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/hotfix origin/master hotfix is still there. So then I try $ git branch -r -d origin/hotfix $ git branch -r origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/master and hotfix is gone, as expected. But then I go to GitHub and look at my branches, and hotfix is

This is a simple question that has been bugging me. In XCode 4.2, is there anyway to display the git branch that is currently being edited? I know I can see this from the organizer (or do it from the command line), but what I want to see is the branch name up there in lights next to the project and file name in XCode itself - which is the tool I use 99.9% of the time. From what I can see from " XCode4 User Guide ", the organizer view remains the only way to quickly see the current branch (as you already knew). There doesn't seem to be an overlay added to the other views in XCode4, no overlay