Git Delete Stale Branch

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Description:

So I had an issue the other day where I ran git branch -va and saw a bunch of branches that existed locally and not on the remote server. Here is what you do to fix this to get them back in sync.

To Resolve:

  1. First list my current branches

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    me@server.domain.com:/home/myuser/my-repo (main) 
$ git branch 
MySprint_1.3
MySprint_1.6
* main

  2. Then list just the remotes

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    me@server.domain.com:/home/myuser/my-repo (main) 
$ git branch -r
origin/HEAD -> origin/main
origin/main

  3. Now remove stale branches from remote and then delete all the branches local that don’t match up:

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    me@server.domain.com:/home/myuser/my-repo (main) 
$ git remote prune origin
URL: git@ssh.dev.azure.com:v3/organization/project/repo
* [pruned] origin/Sprint_1.3
$ git branch -D MySprint_1.3
# Deleted branch MySprint_1.3 (was 510ce91).

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