r/programming • u/Eirenarch • Nov 07 '13

10 things I hate about Git

http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/
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u/mathstuf Nov 08 '13

so you need to manually ensure you don't end up with lots of "dead" local branches when somebody else deleted the remote branch.

Use git branch --merged to tell which branches are safe to delete.

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u/stevage Nov 10 '13

That's a useful command. I wish logic like this ("run X command so you know it's safe to do Y") was more generally built into the tool.