Delete remote branches missing locally

Pushes every local branch and deletes the remote branches that have no local counterpart, which can remove other people's work.

Destructive: this command can permanently delete data. Check every value before running it.

git push --prune origin 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'

Edit the highlighted values, then copy. They are inserted as typed, without shell escaping.

Tool

git

Category

Git & CI

Tags

• remote
• branch
• cleanup

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Adapted from tldr-pages (common/git-push.md), licensed under CC BY 4.0.