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Maks Yadvinskyy
Maks Yadvinskyy

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Git Holiday Cleanup 🌲

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
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Step 2

In the editor mark the branches that you want to keep

123-branch-to-remove
* master
* dev
* keep-branch
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Step 3

Run the command bellow to verify the branches you want gone

cat git_branches.txt | grep "^[^\*].*"
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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
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Step 5

Enjoy the holidays, show this to your colleagues and be nice!

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Jon Major Condon

Awesome!! Could be CLI package 😃

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Maks Yadvinskyy

🤦‍♂️ Why didn't I think of that? You're a genius!

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