git2020년 7월 11일2 min read

Deleting Multiple Git Branches at Once

How to delete multiple local and remote Git branches at once using grep and xargs.

FFrank Advenoh

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Contents · 7

1. Deleting Multiple Local Branches
1.1 Listing the branches you want to delete
1.2 Deleting branches at once with a search pattern
2. Deleting Multiple Remote Branches
2.1 Checking the list of Remote branches
2.2 Deleting multiple Remote branches
3. References

Let's look at how to delete multiple Git local and remote branches at once.

1. Deleting Multiple Local Branches

1.1 Listing the branches you want to delete

Check the list of branches you want to delete with the grep command.

$ git branch | grep "MEDIA-1"
  deploy/MEDIA-1078
  deploy/MEDIA-1210
  feature/MEDIA-1068

1.2 Deleting branches at once with a search pattern

Pass the branches found with grep to the xargs command via a pipeline to delete them.

The xargs command passes the output of the previous command as arguments to the next command.

$ git branch | grep "MEDIA-1" | xargs git branch -D
Deleted branch deploy/MEDIA-1078 (was f21fb73ce).
Deleted branch deploy/MEDIA-1210 (was d8918276b).
Deleted branch feature/MEDIA-1068 (was e5c3e4d6b).

2. Deleting Multiple Remote Branches

2.1 Checking the list of Remote branches

Remote branches can be deleted on the same principle. You can check the list of Remote branches with git's -r (--remotes) option.

$ git branch -r | grep -Eo 'greenkeeper/.*'
greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190320034241
greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190322142727
greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190322145441

2.2 Deleting multiple Remote branches

Delete the branches found with the search pattern one by one with xargs.

The git push origin :branch-to-delete command is used to delete the remote branch as well when a local branch is deleted.

$ git branch -r | grep -Eo 'greenkeeper/.*' | xargs -I {} git push origin :{} 
To https://github.com/kenshin579/advenoh.pe.kr.git
 - [deleted]         greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190320034241
To https://github.com/kenshin579/advenoh.pe.kr.git
 - [deleted]         greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190322142727
To https://github.com/kenshin579/advenoh.pe.kr.git
 - [deleted]         greenkeeper/monorepo.gatsby-20190322145441

Deleting Multiple Git Branches at Once

1. Deleting Multiple Local Branches

1.1 Listing the branches you want to delete

1.2 Deleting branches at once with a search pattern

2. Deleting Multiple Remote Branches

2.1 Checking the list of Remote branches

2.2 Deleting multiple Remote branches

3. References

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