After working for a few weeks, I always accumulate a lot of branches, frequently called feature/* or daniel/*.
From time to time, I delete all my local branches running this command (windows):
git branch -d (git branch --list 'feature/*').trim()
After frequently forgetting this command, I'd like to create an alias for it (with a string argument) ideally like this:
git del 'feature/*'
How can I create this alias?
I was trying this:
[alias]
del = '!set -eu; git branch -d (git branch --list "$1").trim()'
but it doesn't work and I ran out of ideas.
Instead of nesting commands, you could pipe them and retrieve the result of your git branch --list "$1" to feed git branch -d with xargs -r. In order to expand an alias with piped commands, this needs to start with an exclamation mark. Your alias could look like this:
git config --local alias.del '!set -eu | git branch --list "$1" | xargs -r git branch -d'
and use it like so:
# deleting all branches starting with feature/
git del feature/*
# deleting all branches starting with daniele/
git del daniel/*