ref: http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/2015-June/017808.html I've deleted all deveopment branches that are already merged into maint (v3.7) from https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc However if you wish to remove these branches from your clone - it has to be done manually (in each clone). To get this list of branches to delete - you can do: git branch --merged v3.7 |egrep -v " (maint|master|next)" > branches_to_delete After *verifying* the list is correct - and ok to delete - they can be deleted with: git branch -d `cat branches_to_delete` And to sync the [deleted] remove branch list info - you can do: git fetch -p For more housekeeping - look at the remaining local and remote branches and figure-out what to do. [perhaps some of them are intermediate branches during rebase - or abandoned features that should be deleted]. For my branches - I would do: git branch git branch -r |grep balay Satish ---------------- reference for self: $ git branch -r --merged v3.7 |egrep -v origin/\(maint\|master\|next\) |sed -e s%origin/%:% > remote_branches_to_delete $ git push -u origin `cat remote_branches_to_delete` To [email protected]:petsc/petsc.git - [deleted] Fande-Kong/moved-partitioning-to-pcgasmsetup - [deleted] balay-to-maint-fix-vs2015-vsnprintf - [deleted] balay/add-KSPComputeRitz-patch - [deleted] balay/add-clang-sa-build - [deleted] balay/add-fortran-DMRemoveLabel - [deleted] balay/configure-pkg-git-autoupdate - [deleted] balay/el-parmetis-check - [deleted] balay/el_AxpyInterface_removal - [deleted] balay/fix-externalpackage-build-shared - [deleted] balay/fix-fortran-unused_variables - [deleted] balay/fix-sowing-valgrind - [deleted] balay/fix-streams-npmax - [deleted] balay/fix-win-isnan - [deleted] balay/ftn-command_argument - [deleted] balay/git-externalpackage-update - [deleted] balay/improve-odpes - [deleted] balay/rm-tree - 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