git-xcleaner

TUI utility for interactive and fast git topic branch cleanup. Upstream site at https://github.com/lzap/git-xcleaner

Requirements

• bash
• whiptail
• resize

Usage

Install package or drop git-xcleaner on your path and

$ git xcleaner

I DO NOT recommend running garbage collection after cleanup, this can wipe mis-deleted branches:

$ git gc

If you want to do this, do it prior running cleaning, so you are still able to recover after few weeks.

Also, it is a good idea to prune branches prior cleaning:

$ git fetch --prune

Installation

On Fedora do yum install git-xcleaner, on other distros do this:

TARGET=/usr/local/bin/git-xcleaner
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lzap/git-xcleaner/master/git-xcleaner > $TARGET
chmod +x $TARGET

Documentation

See the manual page.

How to undelete

If you mis-deleted a branch and ignored all the warnings in documentation and on the screen, check out this file which contains all the deleted branch names and commit shas:

$ cat ~/.git-xcleaner.log
Deleted branch feature_42 (was d82f87f).
Deleted branch feature_21 (was 796b718).

Now you know the sha, if you haven't run git garbage collection, you can still restore the branch with:

$ git checkout d82f87f
$ git checkout -b restored_branch_name

Authors

• Lukáš Zapletal (lzap_at_redhat_dot_com)

License

GNU GPL v2. See the LICENSE file.

TODO

• Fedora package
• show some details for each branch (sha, last commit message)
• fuzzy comparison of commit messages