[HN Gopher] Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell ...
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Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks
Author : spyc
Score : 35 points
Date : 2020-08-12 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| chmaynard wrote:
| Instead of re-packaging various git commands, I'd like to
| encourage people to contribute their ideas and skills to the
| actual git project. Send an email to git@vger.kernel.org,
| volunteer to help, and ask for advice and direction. Git needs
| you!
| RyJones wrote:
| Maybe? We've had mentorships over the last couple of years
| trying to introduce some crypto features to Git, and they've
| been rebuffed.
| justincormack wrote:
| What sort of features?
| nhumrich wrote:
| why not just set `git config fetch.prune true`?
| brown9-2 wrote:
| I don't think this detects a branch that can be deleted after a
| squash merge to master
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Amazing timing! I was just auditing a colleague's (admittedly
| fairly well-written) shell script for this purpose. Nice to have
| this alternative.
| maximilianroos wrote:
| Does this have any advantage over git trim?
|
| That's worked really well for me
|
| https://github.com/foriequal0/git-trim
| exabrial wrote:
| requires a python installation which brings a lot of stuff and
| new vulnerabilities... instead, see the other post about
| contributing straight to the git project
| CognitiveLens wrote:
| yeah it's been awhile since I've set up a python-ready
| environment, and trying to install this reminded me of the
| challenge of just getting to the expected starting point.
| $ pip install git-delete-merged-branches zsh: command not
| found: pip $ brew install pip Error: No available
| formula with the name "pip" pip is part of the python
| formula: brew install python $ brew install
| python ... OK $ pip install git-delete-
| merged-branches zsh: command not found: pip
| (look up how to install pip) $ curl
| https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py $
| python get-pip.py WARNING: The scripts pip, pip2 and
| pip2.7 are installed in
| '/Users/{me}/Library/Python/2.7/bin' which is not on PATH.
| Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to
| suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
| Successfully installed pip-20.2.2 $ pip install git-
| delete-merged-branches zsh: command not found: pip
| (walk away)
|
| I know there are solutions to all this, and it's mainly that I
| don't already have my $PATH set up the way that pip expects,
| etc, but really??
| fuhrysteve wrote:
| To be fair, python isn't the only language whose package
| management system is all but incoherent to folks who don't
| use python every day (and sometimes even to them!). npm is
| pretty rough to get setup too, and you run into a lot of
| issues similar to this.
| wonderlg wrote:
| I don't think Node has trouble from the very first
| installation. A brew install will set you up with the
| latest version of both node and npm and they will work.
|
| At most you'll have trouble running the right version (rare
| nowadays, unlike in pre-v1 days)
| viraptor wrote:
| This looks like brew issue more than python. `brew unlink
| python ; brew link python` may help you.
| [deleted]
| vikin9 wrote:
| Not so fancy, but a one-liner # Remove all local
| branches for which there is no remote git branch -r | awk
| '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep
| origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
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