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Git Version Control Cookbook

Git Version Control Cookbook

By : Olsson, Voss
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Git Version Control Cookbook

Git Version Control Cookbook

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By: Olsson, Voss

Overview of this book

This practical guide contains a wide variety of recipes, taking you through all the topics you need to know about to fully utilize the most advanced features of the Git system. If you are a software developer or a build and release engineer who uses Git in your daily work and want to take your Git knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. To understand and follow the recipes included in this book, basic knowledge of Git command-line code is mandatory.
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Pruning remote branches


Often, development in a software project tracked with Git happens on feature branches, and as time goes by, an increasing number of feature branches are merged to the mainline. Usually, these feature branches are deleted in the main repository (origin). However, the branches are not automatically deleted from all the clones while fetching and pulling. Git must explicitly be told to delete the branches from the local repository that have been deleted on origin.

Getting ready

First, we'll set up two repositories and use one of them as a remote for the other. We will use the hello_world_flow_model repository, but first we'll clone a repository to a local bare repository:

$ git clone --bare 
https://github.com/dvaske/hello_world_flow_model.git 
hello_world_flow_model_remote

Next, we'll clone the newly cloned repository to a local one with a working directory:

$ git clone hello_world_flow_model_remote hello_world_flow_model

Now, let's delete a couple of merged feature branches...

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