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find remote branches that have diverged by some amount of commits

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remote-diverged.sh

	git ls-remote --heads origin \| while read sha ref; do
	behind=`git rev-list $sha..master --count`
	if [ $behind -ge 1000 ]; then
	echo "$ref $behind";
	fi
	done

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bozdoz commented Aug 1, 2023

To delete the branches, strip the "refs/heads/" and call git push origin --delete:

if [ $behind -ge 1000 ]; then
  git push origin --delete "${ref/refs\/heads\//}"; 
fi

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