As a part of our spring cleaning drive in our remote repo, we found and deleted a lot of leftover merged branches.
I wanted to find a quick way to do the same locally, and I happened at <a target="_blank" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6127328/how-can-i-delete-all-git-branches-which-have-been-merged">an answer</a>, which I've written down below, to save it as a quick note for myself, and others.
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Add the following to your git config by running the command <code>git config -e --global</code>
<pre><code>[alias]
 cleanup = "!git branch --merged | grep -v '\\*\\|master\\|development' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"
</code></pre>Now you can use <code>git cleanup</code>; to delete all the local branches (excluding <code>master</code> and <code>development</code>) which are already merged into the currently checked out branch.

As a part of our spring cleaning drive in our remote repo, we found and deleted a lot of leftover merged branches.

I wanted to find a quick way to do the same locally, and I happened at [an answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6127328/how-can-i-delete-all-git-branches-which-have-been-merged), which I've written down below, to save it as a quick note for myself, and others.

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Add the following to your git config by running the command `git config -e --global`

```
[alias]
    cleanup = "!git branch --merged | grep  -v '\\*\\|master\\|development' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"
```

Now you can use `git cleanup`; to **delete** all the **local branches** (excluding `master` and `development`) **which are** already **merged into the currently checked out branch**.


Git Tip: Deleting merged branches locally