A Quick Way to Remove all Local git Branches Except for Master

by Rob Johnson in on 26 Jun 2017

tl;dr:I create a new branch for each new task, so I can end up with a plethora of branches. This is a quick way to remove all branches except master.

Below is a quick way to remove all git branches on your local machine, except for master. This is really helpful for those of us who commit new branches for each new task.

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

This snippet was written by Adan Alvarado.

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