Git - deleting local and remote branches, finding merged branches

04 Dec 2017

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Delete local and remote branch

# delete local branch
git branch -D branchName
# delete remote branch
git push --delete origin remoteBranchName

Finding merged branches for deletion

# find merged branches into master
git branch --merged master
# when you're on master you can omit 'master' at the end
git branch --merged
# count results/line output
git branch --merged | wc -l
# find remote
git branch -r --merged master