You might like this little item... It pulls the list and asks for confirmation of each item before finally deleting all selections...
git branch -d `git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/\* | while read -r line; do read -p "remove branch: $line (y/N)?" answer </dev/tty; case "$answer" in y|Y) echo "$line";; esac; done`
Use -D to force deletions (like usual).
For readability, here is that broken up line by line...
git branch -d `git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/\* |
while read -r line; do
read -p "remove branch: $line (y/N)?" answer </dev/tty;
case "$answer" in y|Y) echo "$line";;
esac;
done`
here is the xargs approach...
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/\* |
while read -r line; do
read -p "remove branch: $line (y/N)?" answer </dev/tty;
case "$answer" in
y|Y) echo "$line";;
esac;
done | xargs git branch -D
finally, I like to have this in my .bashrc
alias gitselect='git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/\* | while read -r line; do read -p "select branch: $line (y/N)?" answer </dev/tty; case "$answer" in y|Y) echo "$line";; esac; done'
That way I can just say
gitSelect | xargs git branch -D.
git branch -D $(git branch | grep 3.2*)
- this worked for me. It deletes the branches whose name starts with "3.2".grep
- pattern matching in the output (ofgit branch
in this case).$()
- means execute and place the result.|
- chaining. – Eduard-D
is a force delete, should use-d
in most cases to be safer first. – redfox05