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

Thanks to Steve and Neevek, I found a solution that worked pretty well for me I figured worth sharing:

Steve's solution worked for me with one minor adjustment. My remotes were named origin/feature/some-feature-name so I trimmed your awk:

git branch -r | awk -Forigin/ '/\/feature/ {print $2 $3}' | xargs -I {} git push origin :{}

It's now doing a nice little delete flow:

To github.com:project/project-name.git
- [deleted]         feature/search-min-chars
To github.com:project/project-name.git
- [deleted]         feature/search-placeholder
To github.com:project/project-name.git
- [deleted]         feature/server-error-message
To github.com:project/project-name.git
- [deleted]         feature/six-point-asterisk

Was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a more elegant solution, though, that might output something like this (my CLI scripting is pretty poor, so it'd take me awhile to figure this out):

git push origin :feature/search-min-chars :feature/search-placeholder :feature/server-error-message :feature/six-point-asterisk

This would result in a nice single output with one network request:

To github.com:project/project-name.git
- [deleted]         feature/search-min-chars
- [deleted]         feature/search-placeholder
- [deleted]         feature/server-error-message
- [deleted]         feature/six-point-asterisk