Comments on: Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:22:00 +0000

i knew there was a better way than what i was doing! :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:49:00 +0000

git remote | grep -v ‘origin’ | while read REMOTE; do
> git remote rm $REMOTE
> done

This would be better though:

git remote | grep -v ‘origin’ | xargs -L1 git remote rm $*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:58:00 +0000

May I recommed

http://www.stackoverflow.com ?

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:04:00 +0000

doh! thanks for letting me know about that. i’ll see if we can get that fixed.

By: Mark IJbema

Mark IJbema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Your comment-rss link is broken btw..

By: Mark IJbema

Mark IJbema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:59:00 +0000

Though you can actually do this with bash-fu, most of the times I do this by using perl oneliners, so for instance:

git remote | perl -pe ‘if(!/origin/){s/.*/rm $&/}else{$_=”"}’

And if you like like what you see, add | sh

Personally I think Perl is just a bit more readable/writeable, without becoming to verbose (i dislike ruby for this, since it’s not that well suited for writing oneliners imho)