How to delete/prune old local git branches

October 27th, 2018 Comments off

When you delete a branch with git, and push those changes, you might see that your local repo still has that branch in the list

git fetch -p &amp;&amp; git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -d

1	git fetch -p && git branch -vv \| awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' \| xargs git branch -d

What this basically does is fetch all the branches and all the ones with a ‘gone’ attribute, (meaning deleted remotely), then we will remove them.

You can view the branches and what their attribute is yourself by typing

git branch -vv

1	git branch -vv

Of course, you need to prune the branches on the remote git server

git remote prune origin<br>

1	git remote prune origin<br>

To make sure all is good, just re-list your branches, (local and remote)

git branch --vv -a

1	git branch --vv -a

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