Git is one of the best and worst parts about software development. Typically during
development, you create branches for features or bug fixes and merge them into the main
branch. On my team we set Github to automatically delete the remote branch when it's merged
into main.
Eventually, when you run git branch you'll see a bunch of branches, but you can't tell
which have been merged and which ones haven't. Here's a simple example, where I've merged
every branch except the feat/prisma branch:
Delete all merged branches:
Now use the following command to delete the branches that have been merged into the main branch.
git branch --merged main | grep -v "^\* main" | xargs -n 1 -r git branch -d
shellIf your main branch is called something other than "main", change the two instances of "main" to whatever your main branch is called.
This deletes all the branches that have been merged, leaving the only main and the
feat/prisma branch that I'm still working on:
