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cleanup git branches
# this will delete any local branches which are tracking branches, but the branch on origin has gone (ie its been merged to master already)
# it wont delete any local branches which dont have a matching origin, or havent been merged
git fetch -p && for branch in `git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}'`; do git branch -D $branch; done
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