Git command to clean up merged branches.

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git clean-branches

Deletes local or remote branches, except for master and develop.

Install

Copy git-clean-branches to your ~/bin or wherever.

Usage

Delete all merged local branches (except master and develop)

$ git clean-branches

Delete all merged remote branches on origin (except master and develop)

$ git clean-branches -r

or

$ git clean-branches --remote

or

$ git clean-branches remote

Delete all merged branches on a different remote

$ git clean-branches -r other-remote

git-clean-branches

#!/bin/sh
if [[ $1 == -r ]] || [[ $1 == --remote ]] || [[ $1 == remote ]] ; then
  REMOTE=origin
  if [[ $2 != '' ]] ; then
    REMOTE=$2
  fi
  git remote prune $REMOTE
  git branch -r --merged | grep "^\s*$REMOTE" | grep -v "\*\|master\|develop" | sed -e "s#^\s*$REMOTE/##" | xargs -n 1 git push $REMOTE --delete
else
  git branch --merged | grep -v "\*\|master\|develop" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d
fi