This content originally appeared on Dave Ceddia and was authored by Dave Ceddia
Got a lot of old git branches hanging around? Here’s a little script that will delete the branches that have been marged.
It’ll print out the branches to be deleted, and then prompt for whether you want to delete them.
If your top-level branch isn’t called “main”, customize the MAIN
variable to match.
Script: Delete old git branches
#!/bin/bash
# Change this to match the name of your top level branch
MAIN=main
echo "These branches have been merged into $MAIN and will be deleted:"
echo
git branch --merged $MAIN | grep -v "^\* $MAIN"
echo
read -p "Continue? [y/N] " -n 1 -r
echo
if [[ ! $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
exit 1
fi
git branch --merged $MAIN | grep -v "^\* $MAIN" | xargs -n 1 -r git branch -d
Copy/paste this into a file in your repo or elsewhere (like
git-cleanup.sh
) and make it executable with chmod +x git-cleanup.sh
Bonus: if you want this file to be ignored, but you don’t want to
clutter up the shared .gitignore
file with your own local scripts, you
can edit .git/info/exclude
and list this file there. That file works
as a local gitignore.
Delete Git Branches That Have Been Merged was originally published by Dave Ceddia at Dave Ceddia on August 04, 2022.
This content originally appeared on Dave Ceddia and was authored by Dave Ceddia
Dave Ceddia | Sciencx (2022-08-04T15:05:07+00:00) Delete Git Branches That Have Been Merged. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/08/04/delete-git-branches-that-have-been-merged/
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