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Learn how to remove merged branches from your local machine in Git. The command 'git fetch -p && git branch -vv | awk '/:gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -d' fetches updates from the remote repository, identifies local branches with deleted upstream branches, and deletes those local branches.

Remove merged branches from your local machine

Thank you ✌ It’s especially useful if you’ve forgotten to clean up for a long time 🤯

I’d probably be way too paranoid to do this but still pr useful

I’ve been using (on Windows) an alias tied to a script to remove local branches that match a pattern:
C:/git-alias-delbranch.cmd
<pre><code>@echo off
for /f %%i in (&#x27;git branch --list %1&#x27;) do git branch -D %%i
</code></pre>
and then git alias
<code>delbranch = !C:/git-alias-delbranch.cmd</code>
This way I can do <code>git delbranch feat/*</code> to remove all branches that start with “feat/” which has been super useful.

I thought it’s a general sense to do 😂

Great post!
But as someone mentioned in the article comments. I’ll be a little bit of paranoid doing this