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

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2026, 08:16 UTC
Message-ID: <cf3bb2a4-5956-4ba5-9957-b0598f22a122@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHwyqnWkTvicU+U99j0MzzUUXeVnUj=FJJwUDR1F7DGk1hmtrA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, at 20:42, Harald Nordgren wrote:

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>> Even an efficient implementation is going to be a lot slower when it is
>> trying to find branches that have been squashed, so I think we probably
>> do want a way to turn it off. That's especially true in partial clones
>> where we'll have to download a bunch of blobs to do the squash
>> detection. So long as it isn't diabolically slow enabling it by default
>> is probably fine.
>
> A bit slower (depends on how much!) could be worth it for improved
> usability. This is not a command that users will run multiple times a
> day.

I would really like a solid delete operation that I can run, say, overnight. I have better hygiene practices today but I didn’t back then, so things have piled up.

One big cleanup is worth a nightly run. So I don’t care about how slow it is.

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