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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Find/prune local branches after upstream branch is deleted?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:37:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130419173717.GA26964@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehe64f91.fsf@mcs.anl.gov>

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

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-19 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-19 17:11 Find/prune local branches after upstream branch is deleted? Jed Brown
2013-04-19 17:37 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-04-19 17:50   ` Jed Brown
2013-04-19 18:05     ` Jeff King
2013-04-19 19:30       ` Jed Brown

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