Cleaning up all local stale git branches

Sometimes, after some great releases (e some broken ones), it's hard to maintain our repo tidy.

To help you dealing with the messy you made creating branches e pushing them away, I found a short command line that remove all local branches that were already merged.

Open your terminal and paste the commando below:

git fetch --prune | git branch -r | awk '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D

It's also available as a Github Gist right here: https://gist.github.com/leandrocrs/428c956144b2b22738765d77e087a188.

Comments

[David Silva]

Great article, thanks!