Ensure that we're able to pull our own branches if they happened to be deleted in our working copy. This also applies to a situation with multiple working copies. ``` $ git checkout -b alice/1 -q $ git commit --allow-empty -m "Changes #1" -q $ git push rad -o patch.message="Changes" HEAD:refs/patches ``` ``` $ git checkout master -q $ git branch -D alice/1 -q $ git update-ref -d refs/remotes/rad/alice/1 $ git update-ref -d refs/remotes/rad/patches/eebe0783450d21db6e2a956b586fb728e747b12e $ git gc --prune=now $ git branch -r rad/master ``` ``` $ git pull Already up to date. $ git branch -r rad/master rad/patches/eebe0783450d21db6e2a956b586fb728e747b12e ```