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Git is considered to be the most accurate and the most used software by developers in their projects and can be operated by multiple developers simultaneously. It provides many unique and quirky features to the developers which are very difficult to handle but different from other software in the field of technology.

It is mainly used for processing data as it also holds deleted data which is not used. We can also find deleted commits and valuable data when needed until it is deleted from the repository.

We can say that Git takes care of stale data that we no longer need. References to remote branches remain even after they are deleted using the command line.

If our project partner deletes a branch on our shared repository, it will still be available on our side until we force it to be deleted via Git commands.

In this article, we will learn to clean up our repository through the prune option in Git.

Update local branch in Git

When working with Git, we often want to update our local branches from remote branches, which keeps us up to date with the work of our teammates.

View Git branches in Git

To view all Git branches, both local and remote branches and local or remote repositories, we will execute the following command:

$ git branch -a

If someone deletes the remote branch on the server, it will not affect the remote branch as the local Git repository will not be updated by the above command. We can update the local list of remote Git branches by the command mentioned below.

$ git remote update origin --prune

We can also update the local list of remote branches by using the flag --prunegit fetch each time using the and git pullcommands .

$ git fetch --prune

By git fetchupdating new commits, which are added by other teammates in the remote repository. git fetchIt will not update our local branch.

$ git pull --prune

This command performs a fetch and combines those fetched commits into a local branch. It updates the local branch immediately after downloading the new commits from the remote repository.

All local lists of remote branches on the server can be automatically updated without any lengthy work via the Git commands mentioned below:

$ git config remote.origin.prune true