A script for cleaning up Git repositories; it deletes branches that are fully merged into your default branch, prunes obsolete remote tracking branches, and as an added bonus will replicate these changes on the remote.

git-cleanup-repo

#!/bin/bash
# git-cleanup-repo
#
# Adapted by Jannis Mainczyk <[email protected]>
# - support different default branches
# - add output per step
# Adapted by Rob Miller <[email protected]>
# Original by Yorick Sijsling
default_branch=${1:-master}
read -p "Continue with default branch '${default_branch}' (y/N)? "
if [ "$REPLY" != "y" ]; then
	exit
fi

echo "Checking out ${default_branch}..."
git checkout $default_branch &> /dev/null

# Make sure we're working with the most up-to-date version of master.
echo "Fetching changes..."
git fetch

# Prune obsolete remote tracking branches. These are branches that we
# once tracked, but have since been deleted on the remote.
echo "Prune obsolete remote tracking branches..."
git remote prune origin

# List all the branches that have been merged fully into master, and
# then delete them. We use the remote master here, just in case our
# local master is out of date.
echo "Delete fully merged local branches..."
git branch --merged origin/$default_branch | grep -v "${default_branch}$" | xargs git branch -d

echo "Delete fully merged remote branches..."
# Now the same, but including remote branches.
MERGED_ON_REMOTE=`git branch -r --merged origin/$default_branch | sed 's/ *origin\///' | grep -v 'master$'`

if [ "$MERGED_ON_REMOTE" ]; then
	echo "The following remote branches are fully merged and will be removed:"
	echo $MERGED_ON_REMOTE

	read -p "Continue (y/N)? "
	if [ "$REPLY" == "y" ]; then
		git branch -r --merged origin/$default_branch | sed 's/ *origin\///' \
			| grep -v "${default_branch}$" | xargs -I% git push origin :% 2>&1 \
			| grep --colour=never 'deleted'
		echo "Done!"
	fi
fi