Finding redundant branches in Git

Question

In git is there a way to find out redundant branches which are already in the commit history of a particular/current branch ? So that I can delete those redundant branches without loosing any commits and clean my repository as well ?

Answer 1

It turns out to be pretty easy, to get list of all branches merged to master just call:

git branch --merged master

Then you might do following to remove them (use with care):

git branch --merged master | grep -v "\* master" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d

I found this solution here.