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Automatically delete branches that have been merged
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git housekeeping.md

Automatically delete branches that have been merged

Add the following line to your git configuration:

$ git config alias.housekeeping
!f() { git checkout -q ${1:-main} && git branch --merged | grep -v ^* | xargs -n1 -r git branch --delete; }; f

After merging branches run:

$ git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
...
$ git housekeeping
Branch improvement/proper-resolver-class entfernt (war 0f0ab34).
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