GitHub is used for a variety of reasons, not least as a way to distribute your own code. One of the absolute basics is cloning a repository from GitHub to your local machine.

Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

Removing the Git branch locally, and removing the remote tracking branch will rid your local development environment of the branch in question, but it will not remove it from any remote repositories ...