Delete All Local Branches Except main
A handy one-liner to clean up all your local Git branches except main. It uses -D to force-delete each branch, even if it hasn’t been merged—so be careful. If you want a safer version…
Limited availability — accepting new projects starting September 2026.
When working with feature branches, it’s easy for your local repository to accumulate branches that were already deleted on the remote. This snippet safely removes all local branches whose remote tracking branch no longer exists.
git fetch -p && git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs -r git branch -d
If you want to remove them regardless of merge status, replace -d with -D.
A handy one-liner to clean up all your local Git branches except main. It uses -D to force-delete each branch, even if it hasn’t been merged—so be careful. If you want a safer version…
A companion to the Bash UUID rename snippet, this AppleScript is meant to be dropped into a "Run AppleScript" action inside the macOS Shortcuts app (or Automator as a Quick Action). It accepts…
A tiny shell script that recursively scans a directory for Git repositories with uncommitted changes, nicknamed dirgit—a play on words combining "directory", "dirty", and "git".