Cleaning up finished branches in bulk

The Branches section header's ⋯ menu offers two bulk actions, both excluding the checked-out branch, main/master, and anything checked out in a worktree. "Prune local branches" is the GitHub-independent signal: a branch whose upstream remote branch is gone (deleted after its PR merged, then pruned locally by a fetch). "Remove merged branches" widens that with a GitHub pull-request check when an account is connected, so a branch merged but not yet cleaned up on the remote is still caught.

Pruning local branches whose upstream is gone

Opening the dialog re-fetches with prune first, so a branch whose remote copy was deleted since the last fetch still shows up as gone without a manual fetch beforehand.

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Do this

1. Open the branch actions menu
2. Pick Prune local branches from the branch actions menu
3. Confirm the branch-prune dialog

You should see

• The branch-prune dialog lists finished/exporter as prunable
• The branch finished/exporter no longer exists in the repository

Removing merged branches in bulk

Without a connected GitHub account the check falls back to the same gone-upstream signal as pruning — the dialog says so, and still offers the branch.

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Do this

1. Open the branch actions menu
2. Pick Remove merged branches from the branch actions menu
3. Confirm the branch-remove-merged dialog

You should see

• The branch-remove-merged dialog lists finished/exporter as removable
• The branch finished/exporter no longer exists in the repository

Narrowing bulk cleanup to your own merged branches

A third menu entry — "Remove my merged branches", offered for worktrees too — narrows the same cleanup to branches whose merged pull request was authored by the signed-in GitHub account, so clearing out your own finished work never also offers a teammate's. "Mine" can only be read from a real pull request's author, so without a connected account there is nothing to match against and the dialog says so rather than guessing.

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Do this

1. Open the branch actions menu
2. Pick Remove my merged branches from the branch actions menu

You should see

• The branch-remove-my-merged dialog reports nothing to remove

Removing only your own merged branches once an account is connected

With an account connected, "mine" is read from the merged pull request's real author, so the same menu entry now finds and offers your own finished branch.

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Do this

1. Open the branch actions menu
2. Pick Remove my merged branches from the branch actions menu
3. Confirm the branch-remove-merged dialog

You should see

• The branch-remove-merged dialog lists finished/exporter as removable
• The branch finished/exporter no longer exists in the repository
• No error notification is displayed

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This page is generated from apps/e2e/features/branch-cleanup.feature, the end-to-end test that drives the feature it describes.