for long running projects and projects which has continuous changes gets many unused branch over the period of time, and if you do not clean up your branches they keep on increasing some time more than 50+ or may be 100+
When you checkout a branch from remote (origin), it makes a copy locally and points it to the remote Branch. When you want to delete a branch it becomes necessary to remove it from both places as well as from other machine too.
If you want to delete a branch quickfix, first checkout to the branch other than the branch to be deleted.
git checkout other_than_branch_to_be_deleted
Deleting the local branch:
git branch -D quickfix
Deleting the remote branch:
git push origin --delete quickfix
at this stage you have deleted branch from your local as well from remote. If you repository is being used on other machine you need to update their too.
git remote prune <remote_name>
If your
git remote prune origin