What is a “stale” git branch?

Question

A \"Stale\" git branch is a term I\'ve heard a lot. I know it has something to do with branches which are regarded as less useful or useless, but cannot find an exact defini

Answer 1

That's because there is no "exact definition". "Stale git branch", "stale data", "stale configuration options" -- none of these have an exact definition, but they all refer to things that are considered old/unmaintained/not current/possibly broken.

So a "stale git branch" is generally a branch of the repository that hasn't been touched in a long time. Maybe it's broken, maybe not; it's certainly not current w/r/t to the active development branch, and nobody has looked at it for a while.