>mark branches which are only local and have no remote, so you can easily purge old branches after they're merged. git fetch --prune EDIT: Then you can see

>mark branches which are only local and have no remote, so you can easily purge old branches after they're merged. git fetch --prune EDIT: Then you can see which ones don't exist on the remote git branch -v which will show [gone] if it's a tracked branch but the corresponding upstream branch isn't there anymore. Use -vv to show the upstream branch names as well. See: - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch#_pruning https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch#_pruning - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch