My situation is this: My project has a lot of remotes with
lots of branches; about 250 branches in total. I want to
figure out which of these branches to look at to consider
merging.
So, I reach for git branch -a --no-merged master; that's what
its man page says its for. But this still finds 120 branches,
and a lot of them are not things I want to look at. Many of
them are copies of some of my own branches.
What I really want is a way to find remote branches that
are not merged with any of my local branches (or any origin
branches). A slow and stupid implementation of that is in the
attached git-unmerged script, and it weeds the branch list
down to 68 branches, which are mostly really ones I might
want to look at.
So, three questions:
* Is this situation somewhat common, or an I doing something wrong?
(Assuming that I have a good reason to want to look at remote
branches rather than waiting to get merge requests.)
* Is there a better way to accomplish this than a slow perl script that
runs git branch -r --merged foreach of my branches?
* Should git have something builtin to handle this case better?
--
see shy jo
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @remote_branches = split ' ', `git branch -r | awk '{print $1}'`;
# have to filter out the "* "
my @local_branches = split ' ', `git branch | sed 's/^..//'`;
my @origin_branches = grep /^origin\//, @remote_branches;
my %unmerged = (map { $_ => 1 } @remote_branches),
(map { $_ => 0 } @local_branches, @origin_branches);
foreach my $branch (@local_branches, @origin_branches) {
map { $unmerged{$_}=0 } split ' ', `git branch -r --merged "$branch" | awk '{print $1}'`
}
foreach my $branch (sort keys %unmerged) {
print "$branch\n" if $unmerged{$branch};
}