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The command git branch -a lists a bunch of branches that are NOT on the repository, and NOT local branches. How can these be deleted?
* develop master remotes/origin/cloner For example, remotes/origin/cloner used to exist in the repo, but it has since been deleted and I'd like it not to appear when typing git branch -a.
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Delete a branch with git branch -d <branch> . The -d option will delete the branch only if it has already been pushed and merged with the remote branch. Use -D instead if you want to force the branch to be deleted, even if it hasn't been pushed or merged yet. The branch is now deleted locally.
Use git prune to remove orphaned/unused branches If you see any branches in there that you don't want, you can use the command git branch -d <branch name> . If you want to delete the branch called badbranch, use the -D switch to force the deletion if it doesn't work: git branch -d badbranch .
git fetch --prune is the best utility for cleaning outdated branches. It will connect to a shared remote repository remote and fetch all remote branch refs. It will then delete remote refs that are no longer in use on the remote repository.
Let's break this command: First we get all remote branches using the git branch -r command. Next, we get the local branches not on the remote using the egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) command, Finally we delete the branches using the xargs git branch -d command.
If you have remote-tracking branches (such as origin/cloner in this case) which are left over after the corresponding branch has been deleted in the remote repository, you can delete all such remote-tracking branches with:
git remote prune origin
The documentation for git remote explains this as:
Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>".
With
--dry-runoption, report what branches will be pruned, but do not actually prune them.
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