git-branch-deleter

Developer: Dusan Malusev dmalusev@nanointeractive.com

About

In my current company i was working on some legacy project, which had a lot of old git branches, many of them must be deleted from the repository. This branches are just garbage, they were merged a long time ago, but there is not easy way to know how old were this branches, when was the last commit on them, etc. I sat down one night and came up with this tool, git-branch-deleter. It displays all remote and local branches and asks what to do with the currently displayed branch. (Keep, Remove, Show Commit message, etc.)

Installation

Usage

Arguments

• --path (aliases repo, repository, project) Path to the repository where this actions will be performed. On unix systems paths are case sensitive. (Environmental Variable GIT_BRANCH_DELETER_REPO_PATH)
• --skip (aliases omit) Branches to skip - defaults to master (Environmental Variable GIT_BRANCH_DELETER_SKIP_BRANCHES)
• --filter Filters the branches based on the locality local, remote, both. defaults to both.
• --ssh-key (aliases key, ssh) Path to the SSH key used for authentication to remote git repository. (Environmental Variable GIT_BRANCH_DELETER_SSH_KEY)

Examples

# Execute on the current project
$ git-branch-deleter # No arguments needed

# Use the ssh key to remove only remote branches
$ git-branch-deleter --ssh-key /home/username/.ssh/id_ed25519 --filter remote --path /path/to/project

# Skip the branches in the output
$ git-branch-deleter --ssh-key /home/username/.ssh/id_ed25519 --filter remote --skip origin/master,develop,feat/some-other-branch