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Issue

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The number of merged, non-removed branches in our repository grew significantly.\nThe time to cleanup has come. How to make it quickly?

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Doing a hundred “click-delete-and-confirm” manual sequences in Web UI is a bad idea,\nlet’s find a better one.

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Solution

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Notice: pay attention to the name of your remote and change it if needed.

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    \n
  1. \n

    Fetch all changes from the repository, cleaning up stale remote references\nat the same time.

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    git fetch -p
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    2. \n
  2. \n

    Checkout the branch you consider “if it’s merged to this branch, it can be removed”.\nFor us, it was develop. Update your local repository with most recent changes.

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    git checkout develop\ngit merge --ff-only origin/develop
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    3. \n
  3. \n

    Create a list of branches to be removed, filtering out all release branches, master\nand develop. Dump it to a file.

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    git branch -r --merged \\\n  | grep -v '\\*\\|master\\|release\\|develop' \\\n  | sed 's/origin\\///' > merged_branches.txt
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    4. \n
  4. \n

    Check the candidates in merged_branches.txt if they’re all safe to be removed.

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    5. \n
  5. \n

    Remove ‘em!

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    cat merged_branches.txt | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
    \n
    6. \n
\n

That’s all, hope that helps!

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