How can I delete all my local branches if they are deleted from GIT repo. Is there any command for that ? . I dont want to it one by one by the command git branch -D/-d branch-name .
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- 2you mean local branches or remote tracking branches on you machine?tlt– tlt2017-06-20 04:18:38 +00:00Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 4:18
- Possible duplicate of How do I delete a Git branch both locally and remotely?Doryx– Doryx2017-06-20 04:19:50 +00:00Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 4:19
- 1My question is different from this. Thanks for the help.Ashish Agarwal– Ashish Agarwal2017-06-20 05:25:05 +00:00Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 5:25
- Possible duplicate of cleaning up old remote git branchesLuFFy– LuFFy2017-06-20 06:24:43 +00:00Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 6:24
- 1This is just reverse I am asking for.Ashish Agarwal– Ashish Agarwal2017-06-20 06:38:52 +00:00Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 6:38
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Remove information on branches that were deleted on origin
When branches get deleted on origin, your local repository won't take notice of that.
You'll still have your locally cached versions of those branches (which is actually good) but git branch -a will still list them as remote branches.
You can clean up that information locally like this:
git remote prune origin Your local copies of deleted branches are not removed by this.
The same effect is achieved by using
git fetch --prune You could also set that as a default.
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Just for reference if someone looking in this page later
Quiet good amount of details on the same
Command which we can use for fully merged local branches is
git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|main|dev)" | xargs git branch -d This will list merged branches, grep for lines that are not master, main, or dev, then delete each of these branches.
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To delete (or "prune") local branches that are not in the repo
git remote prune origin prune
Deletes all stale 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-run option, report what branches will be pruned, but do no actually prune them.
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Ashish Agarwal
Local copies of deleted branches are not removed by this.
user8395964
yes, i was looking for this.
git remote prune --dry-run origin was it for me. there was origin/branch in remote which got deleted (say, after a merge request), but the local (well, the local on codespace) was still showing it; this fixed it (:It sounds like you are asking for a way to delete your own branch named train if there was an origin/train at one point and there is no longer an origin/train now.
This is (a) somewhat dangerous and (b) difficult to do (because there is nothing built in to remember that "there was an origin/train"), but if you redefine the problem a bit, it's much less difficult. It remains dangerous. It means you are telling your software to automatically destroy information whether or not that loses information you did not want destroyed. For instance, you may have put a lot of work in the last day or two into your train and then someone deletes the upstream origin/train not realizing that you are working on it. Now you tell your Git to delete your train without ever giving you a chance to restore origin/train, and you lose the work you just did.
(You can get your work back, through the HEAD reflog, but it's not a very good plan—which is why I call this "somewhat dangerous".)
To see ways to delete branches that have lost their upstreams (e.g., after running git remote prune origin or git fetch --prune origin), see Remove local branches no longer on remote.
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If you need/want to do it in Powershell, you can use this
git branch --merged | ForEach-Object { git branch -d ($_).Trim() } It will delete all the branches merged with the currently checked out branch. The current branch will not be deleted.
