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

Dry run:

git branch -r --list 'origin/your-branch-name/*' | sed "s/origin\///" | xargs -I {} echo {}

Delete remote branches:

git branch -r --list 'origin/your-branch-name/*' | sed "s/origin\///" | xargs -I {} git push origin --delete {}

Delete only fully merged remote branches:

git branch -r --merged --list 'origin/your-branch-name/*' | sed "s/origin\///" | xargs -I {} git push origin --delete {}

Explanation:

sed "s/origin\///" will remove origin/ from the branch name. Without stripping that away I got: remote ref does not exist