I've had essentially that - if a bit fancier to accept an optional argument as well as handle common "mainline" branch names - aliased as `git lint` for a while:

    [alias]
        lint = !git branch --merged ${1-} | grep -v -E -e '^[*]?[ ]*(main|master|[0-9]+[.]([0-9]+|x)-stable)$' -e '^[*][ ]+' | xargs -r -n 1 git branch --delete

    git pull --prune && git lint

I currently have a TUI addiction. Each time I want something to be easier, I open claude-code and ask for a TUI. Now I have a git worktree manager where I can add/rebase/delete. As TUI library I use Textual which claude handles quite well, especially as it can test-run quite some Python code.

We all have something similar, it seems! I stole mine from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7726949/remove-tracking-....

I also set mine up to run on `git checkout master` so that I don't really have to think about it too hard -- it just runs automagically. `gcm` has now become muscle memory for me.

  alias gcm=$'git checkout master || git checkout main && git pull && git remote prune origin && git branch -vv | grep \': gone]\'|  grep -v "\*" | awk \'{ print $1; }\' | xargs -r git branch -D'

I don't delete branches, I just work with the top several most recently modified.

I use this alias:

    prune-local = "!git fetch -p && for branch in $(git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{if ($1!=\"\*\") print $1}'); do git branch -d $branch; done"

2. Enumerate local branches, selecting each that has been marked as no longer having a remote version (ignoring the current branch)

3. Delete the local branch safely

Dont most git instances, like github, delete branch after a PR was merged, by default?

I am not sure under what usecases, you will end up with a lot of stale branches. And git fetch -pa should fix it locally

The main issue with `git branch --merged` is that if the repo enforces squash merges, it obviously won't work, because SHA of squash-merged commit in main != SHA of the original branch HEAD.

What tools are the best to do the equivalent but for squash-merged branches detections?

Note: this problem is harder than it seems to do safely, because e.g. I can have a branch `foo` locally that was squash-merged on remote, but before it happened, I might have added a few more commits locally and forgot to push. So naively deleting `foo` locally may make me lose data.

I recently let copilot create a document with a few helpful git commands and that particular one was the one it came with as solution for exactly this case.

Speaking of user friendliness of git UI. I am working on a revision control system that (ideally) should be as user friendly as Ctrl+S Ctrl+Z in most common cases. Spent almost a week on design docs, looking for feedback (so far it was very valuable, btw)

https://replicated.wiki/blog/partII.html#navigating-the-hist...

If you squash your PR before merging, then this alternative worked really well for me:

  git fetch --prune && git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D

So effectively "I just discovered xargs"? Not to disparage OP but there isn't anything particularly novel here.

I have something similar, but open fzf to select the branches to delete [1].

    function fcleanb -d "fzf git select branches to delete where the upstream has disappeared"
        set -l branches_to_delete (
            git for-each-ref --sort=committerdate --format='%(refname:lstrip=2) %(upstream:track)' refs/heads/ | \
            egrep '\[gone\]$' | grep -v "master" | \
            awk '{print $1}' | $_FZF_BINARY --multi --exit-0 \
        )

        for branch in $branches_to_delete
            git branch -D "$branch"
        end
    end

I've had this in my ~/.bash_aliases for awhile:

  alias git-wipe-merged-branches='git branch --merged | grep -v \* | xargs git branch -D'

  alias git-wipe-all-branches='git for-each-ref --format '%(refname:short)' refs/heads | grep -v master | xargs git branch -D'

IIRC, you can do git branch -D $(git branch) and git will refuse to delete your current branch. Kind of the lazy way. I never work off of master/main, and usually when I need to look at them I checkout the remote branches instead.

I use

    #!/bin/sh
    
    git checkout main
    git fetch --prune
    git branch | grep -v main | xargs --no-run-if-empty git branch -D
    git pull

I've had this command as 'git drop-merged' for a few years now (put as a script in your path named git-drop-merged:

  #!/bin/sh
  git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|main|dev)" | xargs --no-run-if-empty
  git branch -d

Missed opportunity to call it `git ciao`

Wait, why would the update for the silly master->main change be swapping the excluded regex instead of just excluding both?

You probably want git-dmb (dmb = delete merged branches) for a safe and more comprehensive way of dealing with this.

If you are using Fork.app on Mac as your git client, this now exists (For one month now) there too: https://github.com/fork-dev/Tracker/issues/2200#issuecomment...

"ciaclean" is a nice touch.

I assume CIA stands for Clean It All.

Unfortunately doesn't work if the project you work on squashes everything :(

The git plugin in oh-my-zsh has an alias for this: gbda

It also has one for squash-merged branches: gbds

Very useful I've been using them for years

> But deleting them one by one is tedious. The CIA’s dev team has a cleaner solution:

  git branch --merged | grep -v "\*\|master" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d

  git.branches()
    .filter(b => b.merged && !b.current && b.name !== "master" && b.name !== "main")
    .forEach(b => git.deleteBranch(b.name))