Ability to delete multiple/many local branches

[doughyde]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

I want a way to select multiple local branches and delete all of them. Right now if I want to use GitHub desktop to clean up local branches, I have to change to a branch, wait 10 seconds, delete the branch, wait while changing to master, repeat.

Proposed solution

I would love to be able to select 20 branches and delete all in one go.

Additional context

Add any other context like screenshots or mockups are helpful, if applicable.

[steveward]

Thanks for contributing @doughyde.

Branches merged and deleted on GitHub are automatically removed from your local repository in GitHub Desktop after 2 weeks (if you have not checked out the branch locally in the meantime). Would that work for your situation? If not, can you can share a few more details about your specific use case?

[doughyde]

@steveward Very cool, I had no idea. Apparently I am too OCD (or have too many (small)) PR's in a week. My ideal number would be 2-5 days, not 14. Maybe it's a preference so A) people know the feature exists; B) people can adjust.

[hmaesta]

I understand that this is not the main point of this issue, but I agree that "2 weeks to clean up" could be adjustable – for me, for example, I would like to clean as soon I removed the branch on github.com.

This issue is related: #9747

[cschreib-ibex]

I did not know of this feature either. However this does not address the issue of local branches that were never pushed to the remote. I would be happy if it was possible to delete a branch without checking it out first (ironically, git CLI requires this anyway), as the checkout is what is most time-consuming on big repos.