I like to use different branches to compartmentalise my work items. I don’t remember my feature branches, so I list them with git branch.
When cleaning them up in my local machine, I often google “delete all branches except master”. Today, I want to stop copying commands off the internet. It’s not like I don’t know these commands - I tuned off and did not bother to break it down.
Today, I want to understand what’s happening. Here’s the command:
git branch | grep -v 'master' | xargs git branch -D
- The pipe (
|) passes the output from the previous command to the next as input. grep -vdoes an inverse (negative) search.| xargsconverts the output from the previous command into the argument for the next