Use this nice PowerShell and Bash one-liner to automatically clean up (delete) your local branch once your remote branch is deleted (merged).
One-liner (PowerShell)
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| git checkout main; git pull; git remote update origin --prune; git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ": gone]" | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(" ")[0]} | % { git branch -D $_ }
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That’s how it looks like:
Step by step (PowerShell)
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| git checkout main
git pull
git remote update origin --prune
git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ": gone]" | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(" ")[0]} | % { git branch -D $_ }
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One-liner (bash)
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| git checkout main; git pull; git remote update origin --prune; git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
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That’s how it looks like:
Step by step (bash)
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| git checkout main
git pull
git remote update origin --prune
git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
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Update:
Added this little PowerShell snippet with which you can clean up all your local branches that are already merged into main. Faster than doing it manually one by one.
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| Param(
[string]$destinationFolder = "."
)
$repos = Get-ChildItem -Path $destinationFolder -Directory
foreach ($repo in $repos) {
$($repo.FullName)
Set-Location "$($repo.FullName)"
git checkout main
git pull
git remote update origin --prune
git branch -vv | Select-String -Pattern ": gone]" | % { $_.toString().Trim().Split(" ")[0]} | % { git branch -D $_ }
}
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Added
