How to delete stashes as a batch?

Question

How can I delete some of my Git stashes at once? I tried in sourceTree, but it seems I can only delete one stash at a time. Can I delete several of them at the same time? Is there a command to do this in git bash? I don't want to delete all of them.

Answer 1

With Bash Brace Expansion, we can create a long list of stashes quickly, e.g., stash@{8} stash@{7} stash@{6} stash@{5} stash@{3} stash@{1}

can be made with echo stash@\{{8..5}\} stash@\{{3,1}\}

Putting together with xargs, or a for loop, we get:

echo stash@\{{8..5}\} stash@\{{3,1}\} | xargs -rn1 git stash drop

Note: the list must be reversed.