Remove git branches older than X months
November 22, 2019 —
Cédric Dekimpe
For the example, we’re deleting merged branches older than 3 months :
for k in $(git branch --sort=committerdate --remote --merged | grep -o -P "(?<=origin\/)[^ ]+"); do if [[ ! $(git log -1 --since='3 month ago' -s origin/$k) ]]; then git push --delete origin $k fi done