Git Branch Janitor
Finds the forty dead branches you forgot about and clears them safely.
BeginnerCommand lineDev tool5–12hAI-buildable 5/5no setupworth shipping
What you're making
Every repo collects branches nobody will ever touch again. This lists them with how old they are and whether their work is already merged, then offers to delete the safe ones. It refuses to touch anything with unmerged commits unless you really insist, so you can't lose work by accident.
A branch cleanup tool that classifies branches by merge status and age, then deletes only what is provably safe. The whole design problem is refusing to destroy unmerged work.
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Core features · 7
- Lists local and remote branches with their age
- Marks which branches are fully merged
- Refuses to delete branches holding unmerged commits by default
- Deletes in bulk after one clear confirmation
- Never touches the default branch or the one you're on
- Shows exactly what will go before it goes
- Prints the command to restore a branch you regret deleting
The interesting part
- Squash-merged branches look unmerged to git, and deleting them wrongly loses history
- Distinguishing a stale branch from a long-running one
- Making the confirmation informative rather than reflexive
Once it works
- Add an interactive checklist
- Detect branches merged via squash, which look unmerged
- Add a report mode for a whole organisation
Suggested stack
typescriptnodecommander