ashinn / git-tools

Utility scripts for git

git-tools

Utility scripts for git

git-clean-squashed-branches

Many repositories use squashed merges for a cleaner history, but this makes it hard to know what local branches have been merged and are thus eligible for deletion. This script solves that problem.

Just run this from within your repository and it will give a list of branches eligible to delete and ask for confirmation before deleting them. This ultimately calls git branch -d, not -D, so it's guaranteed not to delete branches that haven't even been pushed yet.

This works by calling the gh github cli tool and inspecting which commits were merged there, so you must have gh installed and authenticated to run:

https://github.com/cli/cli

Also uses the jq json filter.