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To find and clean-up old Git remote branches that have been merged to master
#List all remote branches merged to master
git branch -r --merged
#For all old branches log last commit e.g.
git log --decorate -1 origin/Gauss
#To delete the branches you want
git push origin --delete Gauss
#For everyone to run locally to remove the remove references
git remote prune origin
#To show the # of branches remaining
git branch -r | wc -l
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