Pruning local branches and prune on fetching

[Doodeletion]

I have recently changed my workflow to be more branching-heavy and have noticed that I have to delete a lot of branches manually. As far as I know, SourceGit currently only provides pruning in the context menu of a remote (using git remote prune). It would be nice if SourceGit provided more options to prune branches.

• prune when fetching
  • already supported, see comment below
  • this could be added as an option to the fetch menu
  • git fetch --prune: remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the remote
  • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch#Documentation/git-fetch.txt---prune
  • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch#_pruning
• prune local branches
  • this could be added to the context menu of local branches
  • remove all local branches that used to track a remote but that remote has been deleted (effectively: clean up the left-over local copies of deleted remote branches)
  • apparently there is no git command to do this
  • SourceGit already displays a warning icon for local branches whose remote has been deleted, all of those branches could be iterated and deleted separately (using git -D <branch>)

[love-linger]

You can enable --prune on fetch from Preferences (globally) and Repository Configuration (per-repo)

[Doodeletion]

Thank you, I did not know that!
How about pruning local branches?

[love-linger]

You can select multiple branches (Shift or Ctrl), and use context menu Delete <COUNT> brances

[Doodeletion]

Thanks for the hint, using multi-select to delete the local branches with the warning icon is fine. I would prefer an automatic way to delete all the orphaned branches, but I understand that it may not be important enough to be implemented.
You can close this issue if you want to.

[goran-w]

Just a thought: the Prune icon could be re-used as a button on the LOCAL BRANCHES header (right next to the Sort and Create Branch buttons) to provide pruning (deletion) of local branches that are currently displaying a Warning icon (indicating that their remote branch can't be found.)