Phil Haack • 4/17/2025

Cleaning up gone branches

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The article details a developer's journey to fix a Git alias for cleaning up merged branches after encountering issues with GitHub's Squash and Merge. It explains why `git branch --merged` fails after squash merges and provides a new alias that uses `git for-each-ref` to detect and delete local branches whose remote counterparts are marked as 'gone'.

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