List and prune "gone" git branches.
A "gone" branch is a local Git branch whose upstream branch no longer exist. This frequently occurs in a pull request workflow:
- You create a local branch, push it and create a pull request.
- A reviewer merges the pull request and deletes the branch on the server.
- Your local branch still lingers in your clone.
Over time and after many pull request you accumulate many of these branches which reference long-merged pull requests and serve no further purpose.
git gone can list these branches and also prune them from your clone.
See https://eed3si9n.com/git-gone-cleaning-stale-local-branches/.
git gone --help
cargo install git-gonefrom crates.io- Binary package for Arch
- 3rd party packages: https://repology.org/project/git-gone
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