Remove all local branches except master...

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

I rely heavily on git aliases. I find it really speeds up my workflow. For those interested, here’s my git aliases.

My Git Aliases

Nick Taylor (he/him) ・ Aug 25 '18 ・ 5 min read

#git#productivity#developertools

gitbranch-r|awk'{print $1}'|egrep-v-f/dev/fd/0<(gitbranch-vv|greporigin)|awk'{print $1}'|xargsgitbranch-d

Removes branches that are marked as remote on your machine, but dont exist on origin.

If it complains, replace-d with-D at the end.

Used aftergit fetch prune.

It keeps branch list tidy and real.

Hi!

Just as an advice, take real care with this:

// remove a repofind . -type f | grep -i ".git" | xargs rmcd ..rm -rf

I've made a quick setup just to illustrate, but let me explain the inner workings of these commands, specially the find and grep combination, that is the dangerous part here.

The tree I have here is:

Where the blue items are folders and the gray are files.

find . -type f will search and print all the files, starting on the actual folder up to all levels downward. And thegrep -i ".git" will match to anything that has<any_ character>[gG][iI][tT], at any part of the name.

So, on my special and quick setup, I'll get this result::

» find . -type f | grep -i '.git'./.git/configure./.git/HEAD./folder1/agitos./.gitignore./.gitattributes./agitar/aaa./agitar/a/1./agitar/a/2./agitar/a/3./agitar/a/4./agitar/a/5./agitar/a/6./agitar/b/1./agitar/b/2./agitar/b/3./agitar/b/4./agitar/b/5./agitar/b/6./agitar/c/1./agitar/c/2./agitar/c/3./agitar/c/4./agitar/c/5./agitar/c/6

This is definitely not the expected behavior, and is quite easy to be achieved (believe me :) ). If you pass this result into thexargs rm you may end up removing a lot of undesired files. And you have to take extra care wit this, because asking file by file if you want it to be deleted isn't the default behavior of therm command. On RedHat, CentOS and Fedora there is an aliasrm=rm -i, to make the confirmation mandatory by default.

cd .. is going up one level on the folders, and therm -rf without any other arguments is doing absolutely nothing, but leaves space for a disaster.

My advice, when you want to remove a repository from a folder, is to make sure you are removing the right folder, so pass the complete path to therm command, like so:

rm -rf /home/user/dev/my_program/.git

Always, when usingrm -rf pass the complete path to the file/folder you want to remove.

Also, while I'm around, thefind command is a real swiss knife. To find and remove the.git folder and remove it you can use (but is hardly not advised to):

find /home/user/dev/my_program -type d -name '.git' -delete

You may want to, for example, find all the repositories inside you home folder:

find /home/user -type d -name '.git'

You can also search for folders/files older than, newer than, ..., ..., ...

Have fun and take care! :)

A few handy snippets that I've made into aliases

# Get OS X Software Updates, and update installed Ruby gems, Homebrew, npm, and their installed packagesaliasupdate='sudo softwareupdate -i -a; brew update; brew upgrade; brew cleanup; npm install npm -g; npm update -g; sudo gem update --system; sudo gem update'# Clear out node_modules and re-install everythingaliasyarn.please="printf 'Removing node_modules folder...' && rm -rf node_modules && yarn"aliasnpm.please="printf 'Removing node_modules folder...' && rm -rf node_modules && npm i"

Snippets I've made aliases for

List flag aliases

aliasll='ls -l'alias ls='ls --color'aliaslh='ll -h'aliasla='ls -a'aliaslla='la -l'

cd alias because I don't always get that space in time

aliascd..='cd ..'

When I want to transfer a file to a remote server without going through the security headaches of installing ftp servers:

cat file.txt | ssh me@ip_address "cat > newfile.txt"

I am really bad at storing aliases, and heavily rely on my command line history hand 🤭. I heavily usefzf and its Ctrl-R functionality to fuzzy search my past commands. I can typically get to a previous command within a few keystrokes.

zip -r . Backup.zip
Don't rember if that's the correct one, but I do backup my code a lot to download onto my local machine.

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