Day 5 - Trim those branches

About this Episode

This one is better read on the forum thread.

Congrats on reaching the end of week one!

It's Friday, so let's end with a quick win:

1. Run git branch -r. Marvel at all the old tracking branches that have been left in your local repo.

2. Run git remote prune origin to delete the local tracking branches that don't exist on origin anymore. You might want to throw a --dry-run on there to confirm that git is going to do the right thing.

3. Re-run git branch -r. Better, right?

4. Now that your local repo is clean, take a look at the branches on origin by running git ls-remote --heads origin.

5. Delete any of your branches that are no longer needed with git push origin --delete old_branch.

6. Maybe bug your coworkers to do 4 and 5, too.

7. Enjoy the weekend!