Git- Delete old branches

My list with local branches was going through the roof so it was time to do some cleanup work.

Let’s start by looking at all our local branches:

$ git branch

All our integrations happen on the “development” branch, so let’s have a look at all branches that are already merged to “development”:

$ git checkout development

$ git branch --merged

Now, we can go through the list and remove all outdated branches one by one using:

$ git branch –d branch-to-remove

Of course as a developer we’ll prefer to automate this. Here is the Powershell script I used:

git branch --merged | ?{-not ($_ -like "*development")} | %{git branch -d $_.trim()}