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davoam/git: remove local branches which do not exist on remote server

Created October 30, 2017 10:13
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git: remove local branches which do not exist on remote server
git fetch -p && for branch in `git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}'`; do git branch -D $branch; done
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davoam commented Oct 30, 2017

Thanks to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7726949/remove-local-branches-no-longer-on-remote

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Flamefire commented Feb 13, 2022 •
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Minor modification to work across locales:

git fetch -p && for branch in `LC_ALL=C git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}'`; do git branch -D $branch; done

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