Re: [PATCH] branch: let --delete-merged default to every upstream

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2026, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8q4gxc1w.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2428.git.git.1790960147943.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
>
> Cleaning up every branch whose work has landed upstream required
> typing '*/*' as the pattern.

This description and what the code actually does contradict with each other, I wonder?

> Let a bare "git branch --delete-merged" consider every upstream. As
> with "--merged" without a commit, this applies only when the option
> comes last, so "git branch --dry-run --delete-merged" previews the
> cleanup.

There are many options ('--merged', '--no-merged', '--contains', '--no-contains', '--unset-upstream', '--edit-description') that default to the current branch, which is a very natural thing within the context of git. Is defaulting to '**' is a good comparison to them? I dunno.

> +			.defval = (intptr_t) "**",
> +		},