Cheatsheet: Git

Adding Remote Git Repository

To add remote with origin as the name and https://github.com/user/repo.git as the repository location.

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

To delete local branch with name branch_name.

git branch -d branch_name

Stale branch is a branch that has been deleted from the remote repository but still exists locally.

To delete all stale branches for remote named origin.

git remote prune origin

To delete a stale branch for remote named origin and branch named branch_name.

git branch -d -r origin/branch_name