Re: [PATCH] branch: add support for --dry-run option

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:20:51PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Alexander Kuleshov schrieb am 17.01.2015 um 08:35:
>>> This patch adds support -d/--dry-run option for branch(es) deletion.
>>> If -d/--dry-run option passed to git branch -d branch..., branch(es)
>>> will not be removed, instead just print list of branches that are
>>> to be removed.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>>     $ git branch
>>>     a
>>>     b
>>>     c
>>>     * master
>>>
>>>     $ git branch -d -n a b c
>>>     delete branch 'a' (261c0d1)
>>>     delete branch 'b' (261c0d1)
>>>     delete branch 'c' (261c0d1)
>>
>> Is there a case where deleting "a b c" would not delete "a b c"?
> 
> Sure:
> $ cd /tmp/
> $ git init foo
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/foo/.git/
> $ cd foo/
> $ touch .gitignore
> $ git add .gitignore 
> $ git commit -m init
> [master (root-commit) fde5138] init
>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 .gitignore
> $ git checkout -b a
> Switched to a new branch 'a'
> $ git branch -d a
> error: Cannot delete the branch 'a' which you are currently on.
> $ touch file
> $ git add file
> $ git commit -m 'add file'
> [a e2c2ece] add file
>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 file
> $ git checkout -b b master
> Switched to a new branch 'b'
> $ git branch -d a
> error: The branch 'a' is not fully merged.
> If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D a'.