On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 06:37:12PM +0100, Stefan Beller wrote: > Hi, > > so I tend to accumulate lots of branches as I'd do one > branch per feature. When cleaning up, I'd like to > delete all branches, which have been merged. > I could use > $ git branch -d (which was merged already?) ^C > $ git branch --merged # let's find out > ... > $ # Now run git branch -d with each of the branches. > > This kind of question has already been discussed, > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6127328/how-can-i-delete-all-git-branches-which-are-already-merged > suggests: > git branch --merged | grep -v "\*" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d probably saner to check where you are first, and have it conform to some branch naming scheme; maybe someting like: - check you're on master - only consider branches that begin with first-last-/ -- 8< -- head=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD) master=$(git rev-parse --verify master) if test "$head" != "$master"; then echo "You must be on master" exit 1 fi git branch --merged | sed -n -e 's/\ *//' -e '/^[^/][^/]\//p' | xargs git branch -d -- 8< -- > > Now it seems as if this operation would be needed by quite a few people > actually. Maybe it's time to integrate into git? I'd be interested, which > way would be the most git-like way to do it. > I could think of: > $ git branch -d --merged # no need to specifiy a branch iff --merged is given with -d > $ git branch --delete-merged # comes as an new extra option, doesn't clutter other commands > $ git branch -d keyword-for-all-merged-branches > > Before starting such a feature, I'd like to hear input of others. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html