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Branch Cleanup with git prune

Steve Jones breaks out the branch cutters:

As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated a lot of branches. Even though I’m a solo developer, I decided to use branches, as I expect others to share this load in the future. This post looks at how to start cleaning those up.

As a team gets larger, the necessity of regular branch maintenance increases, but so does the complexity of it: it’s really easy to have one person not pay attention to the e-mails and get burned when old branch deletion en masse does happen.

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