repomop

Developers accumulate projects over time. Each one carries build artifacts and dependency caches that are trivially re-created, yet quietly eat gigabytes of disk space. A single Rust or Swift project can hold over a gigabyte in its build directory alone. Multiply that by dozens of repos and the waste adds up fast.

repomop scans your projects folder, finds these artifacts, and lets you clean them up in one shot through a friendly interactive interface.

How It Works

1. Scans a directory recursively for known build and dependency artifacts.
2. Calculates the size of each one.
3. Presents an interactive list where you pick what to remove.
4. Asks for confirmation, then deletes the selected directories.

Supported Ecosystems

Ecosystem	Detected artifacts
JavaScript / Node.js	node_modules (with pnpm hard links handling)
Rust	target
Swift (SPM)	.build
Elixir	_build, deps
Haskell	.stack-work, dist-newstyle
Terraform	.terraform
Python	virtualenvs (any directory name)
Java / Kotlin (Gradle)	.gradle, build, out
Java (Maven)	target
C / C++ (CMake)	build, cmake-build-*, CMakeFiles
Dart / Flutter	.dart_tool, build
Ruby	.bundle, vendor/bundle
PHP	vendor
Zig	zig-out, .zig-cache
PlatformIO	.pio

Each rule is tied to a project marker file or file pattern (e.g. Cargo.toml for Rust, *.tf for Terraform), so random directories with the same name won't be misidentified.

Installation

Homebrew

brew install mishamyrt/tap/repomop

Script

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mishamyrt/repomop/master/install.sh | sh

By default the binary is placed in $HOME/.local/bin. To change the destination:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mishamyrt/repomop/master/install.sh | INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin sh

To install a specific version:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mishamyrt/repomop/master/install.sh | VERSION=v0.1.0 sh

Usage

Navigate to the directory that contains your projects and run:

repomop

You can also point it at a specific path:

repomop --path ~/Projects

Options

Flag	Description
--path	Root directory to scan (defaults to the current directory)
--max-depth	Maximum traversal depth (-1 for unlimited)
--dry-run	List found artifacts without deleting anything
--yes	Skip confirmation and delete all found artifacts
--include-links	Follow symlinked directories and count hard-linked files while scanning

--include-links is opt-in because it can overstate freed space: symlink targets and shared hard-linked data may still be referenced elsewhere.

Controls

Key	Action
Up / Down or k / j	Move through the artifact list and the confirmation list
Space	Select / deselect an item
Enter	Proceed to confirmation from the selection list
y	Confirm deletion
n or Esc	Cancel and return to the list
q or Ctrl+C	Quit

On the confirmation screen, Enter is intentionally ignored to avoid accidental cancellation.

Warning: Deletion is permanent.