How to remove a branch locally?

I have a master and a dev branch in my repository. I want to remove the master branch from my computer so that I don’t accidentally commit to it (it’s happened..).

There are questions on here about how to delete branches locally and remotely, but I haven’t been able to find out how to only delete a branch locally.

One answer said to use this:

git branch -d local_branch_name

But I tried that and the branch still shows up in the GitHub application.

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