git prune: What is git prune?

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I've accidentally pruned some remote branches and I don't really know what the consequence of this is (I clicked the "Prune remote branches" button in Git Extensions, thinking it would delete a remote branch).

The official documentation says "git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database ". I don't really understand what this means. I'm guessing this might have removed merged branches but I'm not really sure.

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Aug 4th, 2020 By: Tabres

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The git remote prune command removes the local remote-tracking branches that do not exist on the remote. The normal branches are not touched.

7 months ago - By pratheep
 

The git prune is an internal housekeeping utility or a garbage collection command that cleans the unreachable Git objects. The unreachable objects are the ones that will not be accessed through a branch or tag. The git prune command is generally not executed directly.

7 months ago - By vivek reddy
 
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