From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:11:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: let --delete-merged default to every upstream
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) "**",
> +		},