Git Delete Merged Branches

git-deletebranches.sh

#!/bin/bash

MAIN=${1:-development}
BRANCHES=$(git branch --merged $MAIN | grep -v -e 'master\|staging\|development\|\*')

echo Branches merged into $MAIN:
echo $BRANCHES

read -p "Delete these branches (y/n)? " answer

if [ "$answer" = "n" ]; then echo aborting && exit; fi

echo $BRANCHES | xargs -n 1 git branch -d

git-deletebranches.sh_README.md

Git Delete Merged Branches

This is a handy script to delete any leftover and merged git branches. It will detect branches merged into development and delete those, except branches named master or staging. These branch names can be configured by editing the script.

To install simply run:

curl -L https://git.io/vVHF6 | bash

Or manually put this script into ~/bin and run chmod +x ~/bin/git-deletebranches.sh.

If you run it the output will look like this:

~/my-git-repo> git-deletebranches.sh
Branches merged into development:
some-merged-feature-branch another-merged-feature-branch
Delete these branches (y/n)? y
Deleted branch some-merged-feature-branch (was 281d690).
Deleted branch another-merged-feature-branch (was 0b67c29).

You can also supply a branch name as a first argument, if your target branch is not named development like this:

~/my-git-repo> git-deletebranches.sh master
Branches merged into master:

[...]

Enjoy! :)

install

#!/bin/sh

mkdir -p ~/bin

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bxt/566fd7de151bf73a937d/raw/git-deletebranches.sh > ~/bin/git-deletebranches.sh

chmod +x ~/bin/git-deletebranches.sh

echo git-deletebranches.sh installed successfully. 

@sshleifer I think it should work just fine, if you keep your local "main" branch (e.g. master) up to date with the upstream repo, e.g. you can use git remove add upstream [repourl] and then git pull upstream master to refresh you local branch. I would also recommend to keep your fork up to date. Then the script would use that to check wether branches are merged. I have to admit I don't use this script anymore since we often sqaush-merge now 😅