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The _git_ module does not appear ever to prune obsolete remote branches in the _srcdir_ repository, leading to spurious errors when fetching.

Pruning remote branches can be done automatically with the --prune option to "git fetch" or in a separate command "git remote prune".

--[[blipvert]]

> I'll need more information than that before I add extra processing
> work to the current git commands it uses. I don't see any errors here
> from obsolete remote branches. --[[Joey]]