Clean of local remote branches

Question

I have deleted branches on github and did git fetch locally.

git branch -a still lists remote branches.

• do I have to remove local remote branches manually anyway?
• is there a way to do an automatic cleanup of local remote branches (if something is not present on github then remove local remote branch)?

Answer 1

Use git fetch origin --prune . This will remove remote tracking branches that no longer exist in the remote repository.