When working with Git, it is pretty common for us to acquire a large number of different branches for the various features that we are developing.
However, after merging with our master branch, you may want to clean out any useless branches in order to make your Git workspace more aesthetically pleasing and logically structured.
As a developer, having references to hundreds of distinct branches in our Git repository may be extremely exhausting.
Therefore, in this tutorial, we’ll go over the many methods for cleaning up your Git branches quickly and easily.
This article discusses how to clear up local, remote-tracking, and remote branches on your computer.
Clean Up the Branches of the Local Git
To begin, you’ll want to determine which branches have already been merged with your current branch and which have not.
Using the “git branch” command with the “–merged” option will allow you to see which branches have been merged.
Unless you specify the commit hash, the command will assume that you are referring to the current working directory (also known as the last commit of your current branch).
Now that the local branches have been merged with the master branch, you will need to remove them from the repository.
The “git branch” command with the “-d” option is the quickest and most straightforward method of deleting local Git branches.
$ git branch -d <branch>
It is possible to use the “-d” option, which stands for “–delete,” anytime the branch you want to clean up has been completely merged with your upstream branch.
If your branch is named “feature,” for example, you would use the command “cleanup” to clean up this branch.
git branch -d release (git branch -d release)
Branches have been removed from the program (was bd6903f).
Force Delete Git Branches that have not been merged
An alternative method of cleaning up local branches on Git is to use the “git branch” command with the “-D” option, which may be found in the “git branch” documentation.
This option, which stands for “–delete -force,” is used when your local branches have not yet been combined with your remote-tracking branches and when your local branches are not yet merged with your remote-tracking branches.
$ git branch -D branch> git branch -D
As you are surely aware, you have a local branch, but you also have a remote-tracking branch, which is a branch set up to indicate the status of your distant branch, as well as a central branch (also called the upstream branch).
If you commit changes to your local branch without also pushing them to the remote branch, your remote-tracking branch will be pushed behind your local branch, and the two branches will be unmerged as a result.
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