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Marquis Blount
Marquis Blount

Reputation: 8105

Intellij delete multiple local branches

Using Intellij IDE (I have version 2017.3.5) is there a way to delete multiple local git branches at once

Upvotes: 74

Views: 35798

Answers (5)

mojmir.novak
mojmir.novak

Reputation: 3409

You can delete multiple branches in IntelliJ IDEA directly.

Go to tab Git / Log (bottom of IDE) (or via IDE top menu Git / Show Git Log). Here open the Tree View on the left side and right mouse click. Check this picture:

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Note: You will not see this menu item on current branch so select another or multiple of them.

Source: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-131571

Upvotes: 148

Thaianh34
Thaianh34

Reputation: 1

It's easy to delete multiple branch on Git Extensions. http://gitextensions.github.io/

Upvotes: 0

BitfulByte
BitfulByte

Reputation: 4476

// Update Feb 2021:

As mojmir.novak pointed out here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65954247/1546042 you can do this now in IntelliJ. To remove only merged branches, see answer below:

// Older update:

To clean-up (old) feature branches that have been merged to master you can use the terminal to clean it up.

To delete all local branches that are already merged into the currently checked out branch:

git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|dev)" | xargs git branch -d

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/6127884/1546042 for more details.

Cleaning up using run config"

In order to clean up multiple branches at once, using intelliJ. You need to install the Bash Support plugin and use it to create a run config that executes a script with the above command.

  1. Install BashSupport plugin
  2. Create script with the command. (e.g. ~/scripts/clean-branches.sh)
  3. Create a new Bash run config.
  4. Link to the script created in step #2.
  5. Provide working directory of the repo you want to clean.
  6. Run it to clean the branches.

Upvotes: 27

Praveen
Praveen

Reputation: 1485

Have been through the pain of cleaning up the unused branches, and found this plugin.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10059-git-branch-cleaner/

But I was not able to see the VCS > Git menu on my Mac - IntelliJ VCS > Git - not found

But was successful in finding a similar option under git > context-menu - Delete old branches...

Git - Context menu - delete old branches

I am not sure if there is a default option or this is because of the above-mentioned plugin.

Sharing to help others who don't have VCS > Git menu like in my case

Upvotes: 2

IOIIOOIO
IOIIOOIO

Reputation: 4209

There is a Plugin available for this:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10059-git-branch-cleaner/

To use it once it's installed, in the main menu go to:

VCS > Git > Delete Old Branches

Upvotes: 17

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