How do I clean up previously tracked branches in SourceTree?

[Richard Quadling]

I've got several branches that I've worked on that have been tracked on origin.

The branches have been merged into master and have been deleted on origin.

If I use the 'Fetch' option and select the 'Purge' option, I can see that branches that have been removed on origin.

But the list of branches I see locally still exist.

I can see that at this stage, there's no difference between a local branch that has not been pushed to origin and a branch that had previously been pushed to origin but is now deleted on origin.

Is there a way to keep this in sync in some way?

By that I mean, if the branch is deleted on origin, then really delete it locally, including the tracking branch data (I think that's what the list of branches is in SourceTree under WORKSPACE - not the Remote branches).

I'm on MacOS using SourceTree 2.7.3 (169) with the dark theme.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Git has a default disposition of keeping data unless it’s explicitly thrown away. Prune will only remove the remote-tracking references, not the local branch itself.

There is a request to have the feature to sync removed remote branches with local ones, SRCTREEWIN-8631. This one if for Windows, I could not find one for Mac, but add a comment that you would like to see this functionality on Sourcetree for Mac too.

[Andreas Beer]

at least adding some icon that indicates "remote has been deleted" would be convenient for the manual cleanup.

[Schroef]

Why wouldnt they make the same functionality also available for OSX. I dont understand why this would need to be requested for OSX users separatly, makes no sense with development in mind.

[mirandali1020]

Agree. As the dev lead, I have way too many branches on my local, where they are all closed from origin. It would be nice if I can clean those up with a single command.

[Richard Quadling]

Thanks ... I ended up with

```alias git-clean-branches='git branch --merged|egrep -v "(^\*|master|develop|staging)" | xargs git branch -d'```

[nawazibrahim]

git branch | grep -v develop | xargs git branch -d

This works