Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/227026/117421
I've come up with the following is there any errors?
The idea is to find and remove old branches in git.
git branch -r --merged origin/master gives you all remote branches that have been merged into master. However it includes by default master itself and appears to contain HEAD -> origin/master as well.
Find all branches merged into master excluding master and HEAD
git branch -r --merged origin/master | grep -v origin/master excludes these two entries.
This is trivial to get to a loop in bash.
for remotebranch in $(git branch -r --merged origin/master | grep -v origin/master); do
echo $remotebranch
done
However this lists the branch name including origin which is the wrong format for push --delete
This can be fixed by replacing origin/ with the empty string.
Remove origin/ prefix
for remotebranch in $(git branch -r --merged origin/master | grep -v origin/master | sed 's/origin\///g'); do
echo $remotebranch
done
So I think the following may be run, is it correct, or is there a better way to do it?
Final Solution
for remotebranch in $(git branch -r --merged origin/master \
| grep -v origin/master \
| sed 's/origin\///g'); do
git push origin --delete $remotebranch
done
finally you can always run
git fetch --prune
