git-unneeded 1.0.2

Determine whether we don't need this clone (or some of its branches) anymore.

git unneeded

Determine whether we don't need this clone (or some of its branches) anymore.

If a branch has been pushed/merged, we don't need to keep it.

Install

With uv: uv tool install git-unneeded

With pipx: pipx install git-unneeded

Usage

git unneeded -h

usage: git_unneeded.py [-h] [--color {never,always,auto}] [--debug] [--quiet]
                       [--oneline] [--skip-unknown-directories] [--no-fetch]
                       [--no-search-parent]
                       [directory ...]

Options	Values	Help
positional arguments
directory	Default: .	GIT_DIR. Default current directory.
options
-h --help	Flag.	show this help message and exit
--color	Choice: never, always, auto Default: auto
--debug	Flag.	Exact git commands and decisions.
--quiet -q -s	Flag.	Just safe/not, no justification.
--oneline	Flag.	Just output directory\0True. Implies --quiet.
--skip-unknown-directories	Flag.	If a passed directory isn't a git repo, skip it. Not considered a failure.
--no-fetch	Flag.	Don't connect to any configured remotes. Local cache might be old.
--no-search-parent	Flag.	Don't search up parent directories for .git.