"git branch --dry-run --delete-merged ..." prints one line per ref that
would be deleted without modifying refs or branch configuration.
--dry-run is only meaningful together with --delete-merged and is
rejected otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Setting branch.<name>.deleteMerged=false exempts that branch from
"git branch --delete-merged", which is useful for a topic you want
to keep developing after an early round of it has been merged
upstream. Unless --quiet is given, each skip is reported so the
user knows why their topic was kept.
Explicit deletion with "git branch -d" still uses the normal merge
check and ignores this setting.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git branch (--delete-merged <branch>)... [<pattern>...]
deletes local branches matching the optional patterns when their
configured upstream matches one of the --delete-merged arguments and
their tip is reachable from that upstream. The work has already landed
on the upstream they track, so the local copy is no longer needed.
The option can be repeated to widen the upstream match. Keeping the
candidate patterns as positional arguments lets users bound the set of
local branches that may be deleted independently of the upstream
selection.
A branch is not deleted when:
* it is checked out in any worktree
* its configured upstream ref no longer exists, since a missing
upstream is not by itself a sign of integration
* pushing it by name to the remote configured by
branch.<name>.remote would update its upstream, as determined by
mapping the branch ref through that remote's fetch refspec. For
example, a local "main" that tracks "origin/main" is kept even when
remote.pushDefault names a fork. Right after a pull it merely looks
fully merged.
A branch whose work is not yet merged into its upstream is silently
skipped, so one unmerged topic does not abort the whole sweep.
A branch that a surviving branch depends on through a chain of local
upstreams is also kept, so no branch is deleted out from under stacked
work. Collect this transitive set without changing the candidate set
during ref iteration: walk upstream chains from surviving branches,
visit each branch at most once, and remove the collected bases only
after the iteration completes. This makes the result independent of
ref iteration order without repeated full scans.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --forked option to "git branch" list mode that lists only
branches whose configured upstream matches <branch>. The argument
can be a ref (e.g. "origin/main", "master"), a remote name like
"origin" for the branch its origin/HEAD points at, or a shell glob
(e.g. "origin/*"), and may be repeated to widen the filter.
It is an ordinary list filter, so it combines with the others:
git branch --merged origin/main --forked 'origin/*'
lists branches forked from origin that are already merged into
origin/main, and --no-merged inverts the question.
This is the building block for --delete-merged, which deletes the
listed branches once they have landed on their upstream.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
7b399322a2 (doc: apply new format to git-branch man page, 2025-03-19)
updated the formatting for this doc to, among other things, use backtick
for some elements. In the process `è` was used by accident instead
of backtick.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which automatically
formats placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine applies synopsis rules to
these spans.
Possible values for some variables, that were mentioned in the description
prose, are now made into enumerated list.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not
wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc,
meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that
could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting.
It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files,
since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows
various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that
here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where
relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new
extension as well.
Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Harald Nordgren