Often, the development of a software project tracked by 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 (the origin). However, branches are not automatically deleted from all clones while fetching and pulling request. Git must explicitly be told to delete branches from the local repository that have been deleted from the origin.
Pruning remote branches
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