Interactively delete git branches locally

command.md

Delete multiple Git branches with a UI

This assumes you have installed fzf.

$ git branch --no-color | fzf -m | xargs -I {} git branch -D '{}'

Press tab to mark a branch, shift-tab to unmark. Press enter and all marked branches will be deleted.

Add custom subcommand

You can add custom subcommands to git. Here's how I added the above script as git boom.

1. Create a file named git-boom. This file should be located inside of a directory in $PATH (either make a new directory and add it to $PATH, or use an existing location).
2. Add the script contents. Example from my git-boom file.
3. Make the file executable. chmod +x ./git-boom
4. Now you can run git boom

Amazing ✨ 💫 🙏

For this you are a prince among men!

beautiful!

🫡

This saves lives!

Will you marry me ?

function git {
  if [[ "${1:-}" == "branch" && "${2:-}" == "-i" ]]; then
    git branch --no-color | fzf -m | xargs -I {} git branch -D '{}'
  else
    command git $@
  fi
}

I'm not sure what's suddenly generating traffic to this gist, but happy to see other people are finding this useful :)

I updated the gist to include instructions for adding this as a custom git subcommand.

Thanks for this, amazing! 🙏