TopGit: How to retire obsolete topic branches?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw.cz> [2009.05.09.1134 +0200]:
> You can do `git remote prune` to get rid of branches that disappeared
> upstream. Hypothetical `tg retire` (a stupid name, of course) would
> do git branch -d branch and git push origin :branch :refs/bases/branch.
> `tg update` or some other command would then have to do the `git remote
> prune` part and have some fancy logic to retire the branches locally
> too if there are no changes in them. The case when there are local
> changes in the retired branches is left as an exercise for the reader.
> ;-)

Sounds good. Only the "fancy logic" part is a bit murky right now.
:)

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