Re: Find/prune local branches after upstream branch is deleted?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 19, 2013, 17:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20130419173717.GA26964@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87ehe64f91.fsf@mcs.anl.gov>

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:11:38PM -0500, Jed Brown wrote:

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> Consider this workflow:
> 
> $ git checkout -b my/branch
> hack, commit, ...
> $ git push -u origin my/branch
> 
> The branch gets reviewed, merged, and eventually deleted upstream.  The
> remote tracking branch gets pruned via 'git fetch --prune' or 'git
> remote prune', but that leaves my local branch with an upstream that has
> been deleted.  Is there a good way to discover this so I can prune my
> local branches?
> 
> $ git branch -vv
>   my/branch        6d32ec0 [origin/my/branch] The commit message
> 
> I can script it, but this seems like a pretty common thing.

Try "git branch --merged master" to get a list of branches that have already been merged.

-Peff