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Delete multiple branches from a repo with a pattern
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# git branch -r list all branch from the remote repo
# pipe the output to grep only branches start with 'automatic_translations'
# echo each branch_name stripping the prefix origin/
# git push origin :{each_branch_name}
git branch -r | fgrep origin/automatic_translations | while read x; do echo "deleting ${x/origin\//}"; git push origin ":${x/origin\//}"; done
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