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spring clean your git repos!
# remove any bad refs
git remote prune origin
# pipe into bash and auto-delete any branches that have been merged into master!
git log master --pretty=format:'%d' | grep '^ (origin' | tr -d ' ()' | sed 's/origin\//git push origin :/'
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qrush commented Apr 3, 2013

@raggi that might delete master...running on my repo gives:

  origin :HEAD -> origin/master
  origin :master

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raggi commented Apr 15, 2013

I missed a backslash in the grep -v, that's why :)

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