I have many local branches under different folders eg. bug/the-branch or feat/the-branch.
How can i remove every branch under a certain name?
3 Answers
List all branches under the name:
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/feat/
and delete them one by one:
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/feat/ |
xargs -n1 git branch -D
Please be advised you cannot remove the current branch so first checkout a different branch not under the top name.
You can delete all branches within the same pattern by doing:
git branch -D $(git branch -a | grep <my_pattern> | awk '{print $1}')
where <my_pattern> is your name.
For example to remove all branches feat/test:
git branch -D $(git branch -a | grep 'feat/test' | awk '{print $1}')
To delete all branches from a specific folder:
git branch -d $(git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/featureFolderName/)
Or to simplify the code, another shorter way.
git branch -d $(git for-each-ref refs/heads/featureFolderName/)
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