Clean up local list of your git branches

Have you ever had to search through a long list of local branches, which are mostly obsolete for you?

To keep your local git repository slim and avoid a long list of branches while doing git branch, there is an easy strategy that can save you a bit of time.

First, always remember to push everything you did to the remote when you leave a desk, then just run in the console:

git branch | grep -v "master" | xargs git branch -D

It will remove all your local branches except master. If you need to restore any particular branch, you can fetch and checkout - it will wait for you on your remote!

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