Re: [PATCH] branch: let --delete-merged find squash merged branches

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2026, 13:52 UTC
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> Anyway, I can see how this would all be fairly expensive---on one repo
> I work in, git-range-diff can be somewhat slow depending on how many
> commits are in the range, I think. I don't know if it's worth trying
> to state that for folks, though? If we ever make improvements to
> performance, we'd have to remember to remove the "this may be slow"
> text.

It was much slower in my first iterations, so running this on my local Git repo now does not feel painfully slow. Although slower than without this feature.

We might hide it behind a feature flag?

Harald