🍂 Remove gone git branches

After a few weeks of merged pull requests, your local git branches pile up with no remote behind them anymore. Cleaning them up one by one gets old fast, so here’s how I do it with a single command.

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Comments

[Grayson Lang]

Thanks, this is great! Minor tweak to use the --filter option to make sure we're not possibly matching on commit string contents (as unlikely as that may be):

[alias]
    gone = "!f() { git fetch --all --prune; git branch --format '%(refname:short) %(upstream:track)' | awk '/\\[gone\\]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D; }; f"

[Abdellah Chadidi]

Some WIP branches be like: you'll gonna miss me when i'm gone 😄.

[All In Developer]

😀

[Gaëtan Redin]

Great :-)

[louis-pineau-shift]

Great article ! But it seems that it is not working with the git config remote.origin.prune true enabled because it looks like that this config also remove the reference to the remote branch :/