If you have ever worked in a team with more then one person, on a project managed with Git and this project was run using something akin to git-flow you have probably seen repos with tons of “dead” branches. Branches that were used for pull requests or features that has long since been merged. Isn’t that annoying? Why would you need all those branches in your local repository? I don’t want them in my repo, that’s for sure!

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