git-prunify - Trim your git tree from broken branches

A small bash script for cleaning your local repository of orphaned branches 🍂

Clone it, chmod it, copy it.

Installation

This will make the script executable with git. You can also add some autocomplete for it.

• Clone the repo
• Make it executable with chmod +x git-prunify
  • You can copy it to /usr/local/bin/, as this folder is already in the system's PATH variable
  • You can keep it in the cloned folder but you have to add it to the PATH (echo -e '\n~/Repos/prunify' >> ~/.zshrc)
• Done! You should now be able to cast git prunify as a git command

It seems that on most Linux distros, autocomplete works out of the box. If it does not work, or you are on OSX, with zsh you can add zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:*' user-commands prunify:'Remove outdated branches' to the end of the .zshrc to have it show in the autocomplete section

Usage

• It has an optional argument -b to set a branch to check out to before running the script
• Also, the -p parameter can be specified to print instead of delete each branch
• Another optional argument is -D, to force delete branches

Just run it inside a git folder - it will perform a git fetch -p, and then git branch -vv. It regexps through the ones that contain the string : gone], which indicates that they are no longer present in the upstream, and removes them. The script will not run if started from outside a git repository, or from inside the .git folder

You can specify a branch to checkout to first via the -b argument (E.g: -b integration), to avoid the error of attempting & failing to delete the branch you are standing on if it was removed from the upstream. If you try to delete the current branch... well. 💥

The loader function

Was basically copied from this video

The 'create a custom git command' option

Originally from here But that site seems to be old, so refer to this one