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We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucke...
#3: Nominated for promotion
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Alexei
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2021-04-21T09:18:17Z (almost 3 years ago)
#2: Post edited
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Alexei
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2021-04-14T04:45:59Z (about 3 years ago)
added relevant tag
We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucket. But a lot were abandoned and not deleted, some by people who no longer work here. I want to find and delete those, as nobody else will ever care.- Specifically, I would like to find all branches where the only branch-local commits were from specific people. I can do this one at a time by inspecting the commits on a branch, but I don't want to have to look at them one at a time: I'd like to be able to run a command that will return a list of candidate branches, and then I'll go look at *those* by hand to confirm their state and delete them.
- Is there something I can do, either from Bitbucket or the git command line, to find those branches?
- []()We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucket. But a lot were abandoned and not deleted, some by people who no longer work here. I want to find and delete those, as nobody else will ever care.
- Specifically, I would like to find all branches where the only branch-local commits were from specific people. I can do this one at a time by inspecting the commits on a branch, but I don't want to have to look at them one at a time: I'd like to be able to run a command that will return a list of candidate branches, and then I'll go look at *those* by hand to confirm their state and delete them.
- Is there something I can do, either from Bitbucket or the git command line, to find those branches?
#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2021-04-12T18:21:28Z (about 3 years ago)
How can I find git branches where all branch-local commits are from specific people?
We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucket. But a lot were abandoned and not deleted, some by people who no longer work here. I want to find and delete those, as nobody else will ever care. Specifically, I would like to find all branches where the only branch-local commits were from specific people. I can do this one at a time by inspecting the commits on a branch, but I don't want to have to look at them one at a time: I'd like to be able to run a command that will return a list of candidate branches, and then I'll go look at *those* by hand to confirm their state and delete them. Is there something I can do, either from Bitbucket or the git command line, to find those branches?