gitrefresh

Resets a local clone to a clean, up-to-date state against any branch, then prunes stale local branches.

Usage

gitrefresh          # resets to main
gitrefresh dev      # resets to dev

Arguments

Argument	Default	Description
branch	main	Branch to check out and pull

What it does

1. Checks out branch
2. Fetches from origin
3. Pulls latest
4. Runs gitprune --force twice — the second pass catches branches whose delete tracking refs were only cleaned up by the first pass

All git output is collapsed into a single overwriting status line.

Notes

gitrefresh is a “nuke and reset” convenience — it force-prunes unmerged branches. Use plain gitprune if you want to keep unmerged work.