Git Holiday Cleanup 🌲

Maks Yadvinskyy — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:14:34 +0000

The year is almost over and the holidays are approaching, what a good time to say goodbye to your old stale branches. I know letting go of something is always hard, but don't sweat it. I'll teach you how to keep the things you need and ~~remove~~ purge the rest.

Step 1

Get a list of my local branches

git branch >> git_branches.txt

Step 2

In the editor mark the branches that you want to keep

123-branch-to-remove
* master
* dev
* keep-branch

Step 3

Run the command bellow to verify the branches you want gone

cat git_branches.txt | grep "^[^\*].*"

Step 4

If they are all good then run the same command and feed it into git branch -D

cat git_branches.txt | grep "^[^\*].*" | xargs git branch -D

Step 5