Automatically clean up local once remote branch is deleted

Sebastian Gräf included in Today I learned (TIL) GitHub

Monday, Sep 20, 2021 93 words One minute

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Contents

Use this nice PowerShell one-liner to automatically clean up (delete) your local branches once your remote branches is deleted (merged).

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git checkout main; git pull; git remote update origin --prune; git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ": gone]" | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(" ")[0]} | % { git branch -D $_ }

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git checkout main
git pull
git remote update origin --prune
git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ": gone]" | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(" ")[0]} | % { git branch -D $_ }

References

git-fetch
git prune
git checkout