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Matthieu
Matthieu

Reputation: 16407

How do I list branches that have been pushed to a remote?

I can find a lot of answers to list tracking branches (here), what I would like to do is check what local branches can be safely deleted because the commits have been pushed to a remote already.

In most cases, I pushed those branches to the remote and they are not "tracking", so that part is not really helping. However in most cases, the remote branch has the same name and should point to the same commit (but not always true).

Seems like this should be fairly common thing to do?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2196

Answers (1)

Matthieu
Matthieu

Reputation: 16407

The way I found to do this is:

git branch -a --contains name_of_local_branch | grep -c remotes/origin

of course, origin can be changed to the name of whatever remote.

This will output the number of remote branch that contains the local branch. If that number is different than 0, then I'm good to clean it up from my local repository.

Update, made it into a script:

#!/bin/bash
# Find (/delete) local branches with content that's already pushed
# Takes one optional argument with the name of the remote (origin by default)

# Prevent shell expansion to not list the current files when we hit the '*' on the current branch
set -f

if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
  remote="$1"
else
  remote="origin"
fi

for b in `git branch`; do

  # Skip that "*"
  if [[ "$b" == "*" ]]
  then
    continue
  fi

  # Check if the current branch tip is also somewhere on the remote
  if [ `git branch -a --contains $b | grep -c remotes/$remote` != "0" ]
  then
    echo "$b is safe to delete"
    # git branch -D $b
  fi
done

set +f

Upvotes: 4

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