remove-old-branches

Briefly.

This tool removes old branches in Butbucket repository. Use it on your own risk!

Description

Have you ever faced the situation when the number of branches in your working repository exceeds several hundreds? In this case, it becomes very difficult to switch between them in some IDEs and create a Pull Request. When I once again needed to remove unnecessary branches, I realized that the easiest way is to automate this process. So this small script was started. All it does is it goes to the page with branches, scrolls it down to the very end (by default the branches are sorted so that the oldest branches are found at the very bottom) and removes the branches from the bottom up one by one until there are 100 branches left (this is customizable). Exceptions are made for the master and develop branches and for the list of stop words. Be сareful! Use it at your own risk.

If something doesn't work, please create an Issue.

Made with selenium-webdriver,

browser used: Chrome.

repository: some self-hosted Bitbucket

System requirements:

• Node v. 8.9.1 (may be working with older versions, didn't check it)
• Chrome v. 72.0.3626 from here (put it in the project's parent directory).

Setup:

• navigate to the directory where you want to install the tool
• download Chrome driver from official Google storage and place it in the current directory
• npm i remove-old-branches

Run:

• cd node_modules/remove-old-branches
• npm start

All the switches in config.js.

For any reference go here (selenium-webdriver docs).