Thanks for your help, folks, you had very detailed responses, but I was not clear enough, I am well aware of the difference between local and remote.
I want to delete *remote* branches in repo A that are also in *remote* repo B. I guess you two don't use github, but if you fork a repo that has many active branches, you get: https://github.com/sam-github/node/branches/all None of those branches are getting updated *in my remote*, not automatically, they are just snapshots of the random set of branches that existed in joyent/node.git at the instant a year and a half ago when I forked it. I would like to have only branches in my *remote* that I am working on. github has partially realized the problem with this, and has recently added the "Yours, Active, Stale" tabs to try to make sense of the garbage branches that get copied over when you do a *github fork*, but its insufficient, I use the command line most of the time, for one. If I ever want to checkout one of the branches from upstream (my name for the remote joyent/node.git) I can always do it by checking out upstream/v0.10.31-release, I don't need to have that branch in *my remote*. So what I want to do in effect is: for each $branch in remote "origin", if head(origin/$branch) is in ancestry of upstream/$branch git push --delete origin $branch end end Like I said, I can script that, with some effort, but maybe someone else has been annoyed by this? And before you say, "who cares, disk space is cheap and the git object store is efficient", I use `git branch -a` habitually to check for origin branches that have not merged, its my work-list, but for my local repo cloned from sam-github/node.git, it has 50+ branches, most of which are not mine. I also use gitk to look at all my branches, etc, I really don't want those dead branches in my remote. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
