git cleanup alias

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Calling "git cleanup" will delete local branches that have already been merged into origin/master. It skips master, staging, and dev because we don't want to delete those in normal circumstances.

$ git config --global alias.cleanup '!git branch --merged origin/master | egrep -v "(^\*|master|staging|dev)" | xargs git branch -d'

Then just call it with git cleanup

The ^\* is checking to make sure it doesn't try to delete the current branch you're on (which gets displayed with a * next to the name)

Experiment using this command in a terminal: git branch --merged origin/master | egrep -v "(^\*|master|staging|dev)" | xargs echo