Delete multiple remote branches in git

Question

I have a team member who inadvertently pushed over 150 of his local branches to our central repo. Thankfully, they all have the same prefix. Using that prefix, is there a gi

Answer 1

This may be a duplicate answer but below tested and worked for me perfectly.

1. Delete local branch forcefully

git branch -D branch-name

2. Delete Remote branch

git push origin --delete branch-name

3. Delete more than 1 local branch

git branch -D branch-name1 branch-name2

4. Delete more than 1 remote branch

git push origin --delete branch-name1 branch-name2

5. Delete local branch with prefix. For example, feature/*

git branch -D $(git branch --list 'feature/*')

git branch -D backticks $(git branch --list 'feature/*' backticks)

6. List remote branch with prefix.

git branch -r | grep -Eo 'feature/.*'

7. Delete remote branch with prefix

git branch -r | grep -Eo 'feature/.*' | xargs -I {} git push origin :{}