Local git branch list "synchronization" with remote

GitRemoteBranchSync.md

Git Remote Branch Sync

There are some folks who want to keep their local git branch list to be in sync with the branches available on the remote. This typically happens after a Pull Request on GitHub Enterprise, when the remote branch is merged and removed, but the branch still exists locally.

To clean up the branches that no longer exist on the remote, there are a couple of options (as well as more that are not listed here):

• The quick way:

  git branch --merged | grep -v "\*" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d
  

• Make sure we keep master:

  • You can ensure that master, or any other branch for that matter, doesn't get removed by greping for more. In that case you would go:

  git branch --merged | grep -v "\*" | grep -v "master" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d
  

• If you want to keep multiple branches:

  • So if we wanted to keep master, develop and staging for instance, we would use:

  git branch --merged | grep -v "\*" | grep -Ev "(\*|master|develop|staging)" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d
  

Reference: Delete local Git branches after deleting them on the remote repo